Re: [idn] UNIX moving to UTF-8

["Edmon Chung" <edmon@neteka.com>]

While I am pro-non-ACE-as-final-solution, I must say that although UTF8 is
being deployed readily, some implementations such as Win2000 as I have
pointed out in my known issues document
(http://www.openidn.org/issues.html), is sometimes a bit shaky especially
when used to package DNS requests.

Edmon

>
> Keith Moore wrote:
> >
> > > For extensive evidence that it's happening:
> >
> > that's not anything of the sort.  you cited evidence that a few
> > energetic folks are implementing and modifying existing tools to
> > support UTF-8.
> >
> > that's a far cry from widespread adoption of UTF-8 by real users.
>
> I think it's pretty clear that UTF-8 is the direction that most
> environments are heading to, if they aren't there already.
>
>  - Solaris 7 and higher use UTF-8 for the local (Unicode) interfaces
>  - Windows 2000 and CE use Unicode and UTF-8
>  - MacOS 9 (or X?) and higher same
>  - etc... don't discount the Linux i8n efforts either, it is an extreme
>    likelihood at the very least if not a statement of direction
>
> End-user apps that support UTF-8 include Office 2000 and of course most of
> the modern web/mail front-ends
>
> --
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