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[idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution
- From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
- Date: 29 May 2001 04:25:57 -0000
- Delivery-date: Mon, 28 May 2001 21:29:15 -0700
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I suspect that we have consensus that the long-term IDN solution will
encode Unicode characters as UTF-8 on the wire. I request that the WG
chairs run a poll to see whether we have consensus.
If we do, in fact, have consensus on this point, then we can stop
wasting time considering ACE-now-and-forever. We can instead compare
the actual possibilities: (1) ACE-now-UTF-8-later; (2) simply UTF-8.
---Dan
P.S. I'm not going to bother responding to Hoffman's ad-hominem attacks.