Re: [idn] Transparent vs. ACE representations (was We are

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>]

> why is that any stranger than code that scans through text body parts,
> tries to find strings that look like URLs, and displays those URLs as
> clickable links?  And ACE strings are easier to recognize than URLs.

Most of the apps that do this for URLs are already manipulating
rich-text and
so its not that big of a deal to underline or colorize text. It is a big
deal
for everything else though. How many logfile viewers do it?

How many apps are going to do ACE transliteration? Will ping?
traceroute?
netstat? etc?

> I'm not saying that "everybody" will do this, but it's certainly
> feasible.

Lots of things are feasible but so impractical that they are unexpected