Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

> I agree that the choice of ACE-forever is simply not a realistic option.
> Given that the largest use of the Internet is for the Web, and given that at
> least for Arabic there is basically only one de facto browser that supports
> that language, then it is necessary for Arabic speakers to ask "what
> encoding, if any, does that browser support?"  The answer is UTF-8, and I
> cannot speculate on when Microsoft would upgrade their browser to send
> RACE...

Even if we allowed UTF-8 queries from day one, it seems unlikely that these
would be done in a manner that is compatible with this existing browser.
If nothing else, this browser isn't going to normalize the names before sending 
them in queries.

(For that matter, it's also unlikely that we would adopt RACE - we would very
likely choose some other ACE.)

Keith