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

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

Dave Crocker wrote:

> >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.
> 
> what you seem to be missing is an appreciation of how often that
> phenomenon has occurred, yet proved wrong.

My statement is supported. What I am seeing is policy direction such as
RFC2130, the protocols and formatting specifications under development
which are implementing UTF-8 as the preferred or only encoding, and the
number of platforms which are implementing UTF-8. Items 2 and 3 in
particular illustrate that UTF-8 is and will be (for the "foreseeable
future" anyway) the favored encoding for new Internet protocols (and even
for new implementations, to the extent where other charsets are only
provided as subsets of 10646/Unicode).

I'm certainly willing to change my position if you can provide evidence
that all of the above is just a bad expirement, and that NEW protocols are
in fact favoring some other encoding instead of UTF-8. Got any?

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