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Re: [idn] UTF-8 / RACE
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Subject: Re: [idn] UTF-8 / RACE
- From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 08:30:06 -0700
- CC: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Mon, 28 May 2001 08:32:06 -0700
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- Organization: EHS Company
> Again, I don't see it. In either the ACE case or the UTF8 case you
> have to separate domain names from other text for the purpose of
> input. In the case of ACE you have to separate them for the purpose
> of presentation also, but often you would have had to do it anyway.
Domain names show up all over the place. lpq listings, netstat, etc. Even
in a GUI environment where font management was simpler, not much of this
stuff would convert ACE for output purposes. Opinion.
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