Re: [idn] We are quibbling about WHAT?

[David Hopwood <david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk>]

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Dave Crocker wrote:
> UTF-8 takes a set of table entries, and maps them to 8-bit strings.
> 
> ACE takes the same set of table entries and maps them to a subset of 7-bit
> ASCII.  For order-of-magnitude convenience, let us call this 6.5-bit ASCII.
> 
> Never having been any good at math, I'm still going to suggest that the
> entire debate that has garnered such religious positions -- and, far worse,
> is causing continuing delay to this working group -- concerns an encoding
> efficiency difference of, at most, 19 percent.

The debate between ACE and UTF-8 has nothing to do with encoding
efficiency. The benefit of UTF-8 is in having DNS names in the same
encoding as the surrounding text, rather than having to treat them as a
special case.

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