Re: [idn] Reality Check

[liana.ydisg@juno.com]

Hi,
 I am working on muenonic symbol mapping to ASCII [a-z0-9].
I have done French, English and Chinese.  I may summit it to
WG soon.  I am looking into Indian, Korean, Japanese, Hebrew 
 and other languages. If anyone would like to contribute to this 
effort, please respond to this message.

Liana

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:40:55 -0400 Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> writes:
> > > hint: the cost of dealing with two different name representations 
> is
> > > greater than the cost of dealing with a single one.
> > 
> > No kidding. With UTF8 they only do it once. With ACE they do it 
> twice.
> 
> but due to backward compatibility and deployment issues, the ACE 
> representation is the essential one.  The UTF8 one is not needed.
> 
> as I've said before, the time to move to a UTF8 representation in 
> the
> DNS protocol is when we upgrade to something better than DNS.
>