Re: [idn] I fear I cannot use IDN in the next 10 years

[DougEwell2@cs.com]

In a message dated 2001-10-05 0:39:39 Pacific Daylight Time, ehall@ehsco.com 
writes:

>  Clearly the world wants a UCS. While it is true that nobody can guarantee
>  that this will be 10646/Unicode, we can all be certain that it absolutely
>  WON'T be ASCII. What we can also be sure of is that UTF-8 will be the
>  favored encoding for the future that we can see.

You can't be sure about UTF-8 unless you can guarantee 10646/Unicode.  UTF-8 
doesn't exist outside of Unicode.  Or perhaps I misunderstood Eric's 
statement.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California