Re: [idn] Interactions between short-term and long-term

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

At 22.02 +0000 01-01-26, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
>Paul Hoffman / IMC writes:
>>  Am I missing some significant effect that ACEs might have on other
>>  long-term solutions?
>
>Yes. If we allow ACE-based IDNs, then we'll have to keep them working
>during the subsequent transition to UTF-8.

Why should UTF-8 be the long-term solution? Why not UCS-2 or some 
other representation?

>Consider, for example, franXais.com, but with c-cedilla in place of X.
>Someone registers the ACE version of this. We make the huge changes
>required for ACE. Users can then send mail to franXais.com.

Consider another example where a user is using an existing software 
which doesn't do nameprep, and tries to send email to a user in a 
domain which include a character which is changed because of 
nameprep, what then happens?

Dan you have still not answered my question on how much email you 
send and receive where the language in the mail is not english, and 
what languages you use? Knowing this will help knowing what scripts 
you actually have experience with, and based on that judge the 
importance of your input to this mailing list.

    Patrik