Re: [idn] Dots, and a path to working IDNs

[liana.ydisg@juno.com]

Allow me to comment on your UTF-8 as a long term solution.

Most people in the world using a limited number of basic phonetic symbols
to
communicate.  This point can be shown by looking through Unicode tables.
Even for Chinese, it can be handled by 25 letters as the minimum.  We can

infer that the number of symbols in Latin alphabet is an optimum number 
for majority people in the world.  

The most charllenge problem is dealing with Chinese symbols, there are 
100,000 on the rise and the often used ones are over 8,000(depending on
who's 
viewpoint this is.) each is cramed inside a square space.  If we can
represent them 
with the existing small set of phonetic symbols why should we bother with
UTF-8?  
IBM started 8-bits characters with international users in mind.  But that
solution 
was not effective and the industry  knows the reasons. 
 
I can see supporting UTF-8, such that  we may have International
Alphabet, Cyrillic,
 Arabic with a larger keyboard for the user to take the full usefulness
of 8-bits. 
Chinese have been tried large keyboards, and a medium 10x10 keyboard, but

only the English 3x10 has survived.  Without significent improvement for
the
 users, who would dive into UTF-8 trouble?  

Liana Ye