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Re: [idn] I fear I cannot use IDN in the next 10 years
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- Subject: Re: [idn] I fear I cannot use IDN in the next 10 years
- From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
- Date: 9 Oct 2001 04:48:38 -0000
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Paul Hoffman / IMC writes:
> To date,
> there have been no UTF8-based proposals without major technical flaws.
One exception is the straightforward set of Unicode/UTF-8 IDN operations
described in http://pi.cr.yp.to.
Yes, Unicode and UTF-8 require many software upgrades, but (1) those are
upgrades that we want to do anyway, and (2) all the other IDN proposals
require even more software upgrades.
---Dan