RE: Clipboard (was: Re: [idn] RE: [idn] Debunking the ACE myth)

[Yves Arrouye <yves@realnames.com>]

> > > You're going to rely on the dq-- or whatever prefix to find
> > > names in free
> > > text? Now I like IDNA even less than I did before.
> >
> >FWIW a lot of MUAs do this today to let you follow a link in 
> plain text
> >e-mail. They recognize URIs, even www.*, ftp.*, ..., host 
> names, and turn
> >them into links. Nothing new.
> 
> Yes, nothing new, and it works well enough to be more of a help than a
> nuissance, to a human user who can apply final judgement. But it does
> not work well enough to build a protocol on it, such as the 'clipboard
> protocol' that is implicitly proposed.

No doubt about that. Nor is it going to help when one really wants to
discuss the details of an ACE encoding on e-mail and write dq--whatever only
to see it turned into an internationalized string. Some frustration
guaranteed. I was only pointing out that looking for text in free text is
not hard ;)

YA