Re: [idn] Why we can go directly to UTF-8

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>]

"D. J. Bernstein" wrote:
> 
> Eric A. Hall writes:
> > The number of systems which will break with UTF-8
> 
> Details, please.
> 
> My UNIX list at the bottom of http://cr.yp.to/proto/idn.html includes
> gethostbyname() (some versions of which have already been fixed), mutt,
> pine, and sendmail. Are you claiming that something else needs to be
> upgraded? If so, what? We want verifiable facts.

If I had kept a list of every device and application that broke when a
customer of mine thought "_" was legal, I'd gladly give it to you.

Those systems enforce LDH, and will reject non-LDH sets.

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