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

[Yves Arrouye <yves@realnames.com>]

> Consider a programmer writing network software five years from now, or
> ten years from now.
> He'll be working with text in UTF-8. But wait, you say, he has to
> [...]
> So he'll have to deal with ACE, taking time away from implementing new
> features that users actually want.

I hope (s)he'll be using UTF-16 or maybe even UTF-32, not UTF-8, for all
these text manipulations...

If ACE is deployed, I don't think it will take 5 years for any OS or other
library to offer a function that, given a name stored in a Unicode buffer
(in a given UTF), will provide a name that can be digested by an ACE-based
DNS infrastructure, and passed directly to gethostbyname() or used in these
contexts were one needs to have an ACE name, such as mail headers, ...

YA