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Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution
- From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
- Date: 3 Jun 2001 00:02:30 -0000
- Delivery-date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 17:06:54 -0700
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Adam M. Costello writes:
> some existing applications will work to some extent by accident
You think that http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards.html#IDX20 is an
accident? You think that http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#mod
is an accident?
This is called modularity. The system is deliberately structured so that
the interpretation of bytes \200-\377 as characters is isolated inside
user-interface tools. Most code simply has to be 8-bit-clean.
---Dan