Re: [idn] Debunking the ACE myth

["Adam M. Costello" <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>]

"D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> wrote:

> What you're neglecting to take into account is that ACE is
> substantially more expensive to deploy than UTF-8.

If you're right, then it won't be deployed, so don't worry about it.

> You were claiming before that ACE wouldn't cause any
> failures. ``Nothing will actually break,'' you said.

I overstated it.  I was wrong.  Sorry.  But you agree that ACE will
break fewer things in the beginning than an 8-bit encoding.  I think
that's very important for the successful rollout of IDNs, so I'm going
to work on ACE.  You are free to believe that I'm wasting my time.

AMC