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Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution
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- Subject: Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution
- From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
- Date: 16 Jul 2001 03:13:18 -0000
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James Seng/Personal writes:
> I requested you to point to an internet draft
Your request is noted.
In the meantime, please run the poll. A two-week poll will leave enough
time for people to get back from vacation. The agree/disagree statement,
as I've told you repeatedly, is as follows: ``The long-term IDN solution
will encode Unicode characters as UTF-8 on the wire.''
I think we have consensus on this one aspect of what's going to happen.
If I'm right, then we can stop wasting time discussing silly ACE-forever
scenarios that aren't going to happen. Please stop stonewalling.
> strawpoll for individual whims
Excuse me? Many people have announced their support for UTF-8 as the
long-term solution. Only a few people have objected. When you stalled by
saying ``I would like to hear some support on this before we run this
poll,'' you immediately saw some public messages of support. For
example, here's what Bruce Thomson said:
It is likely that we have consensus on this point, and it would be
well worth the effort of a straw poll to establish this, so we can
move on.
How you can call this an ``individual whim'' is beyond me.
---Dan