RE: [idn] Moving forward

["Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@walid.com>]

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| The real decision is between ACE-then-UTF-8 and a direct move to UTF-8.
| There appear to be more people in this group supporting ACE-then-UTF-8.
| However, (1) many people here have been misled by incorrect statements
| of the costs of ACE and UTF-8, and (2) UTF-8 appears to be the de facto
| standard for working IDN experiments today.

  Depends entirely on your definition of 'working'.  From what I've 
seen of the 'just send UTF-8' approaches out there they 1) completely
ignore the normalization issues and 2) completely ignore the applications,
protocols, etc. that are not directly user-facing.

  -bws