Re: [idn] We are quibbling about WHAT?

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 11:55 AM 7/30/2001, David Hopwood wrote:
>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.

"surrounding text"???  you mean like this message?

sorry, no.  DNS strings occur in many situations.  Most do not, today, use 
UTF-8,

As to predictions of the future, well, thety are always wrong.  (No doubt 
including this one.)

d/


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