[idn] RE: I don't want to be facing 8-bit bugs in 2013

[Erkki Kolehmainen <erkki.kolehmainen@tieke.fi>]

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Re attached:

The use of local character sets (encoding) is doomed for particularly =
ww
information interchange.

Local font crafting is quite another issue. With the newly introduced
capability in the UCS (ISO/IEC 10646) and Unicode to predefine =
sequences for
decomposed characters, font manufacturing is likely to also improve.

Sincerely,
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Erkki I. Kolehmainen
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-----Original Message-----
From: Masataka Ohta [mailto:mohta@NECOM830.HPCL.TITECH.AC.JP]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:34 AM
To: D. J. Bernstein
Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org; iesg@ietf.org; iab@isi.edu
Subject: Re: I don't want to be facing 8-bit bugs in 2013


D. J. Bernstein;

> Paul Robinson writes:
> > You tell him that although it's gobbledygook to people without =
greek
> > alphabet support, it will still work. It's not convenient, but it =
WILL
> > work. Guaranteed.
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> False. IDNA does _not_ work. IDNA causes interoperability failures.

IDNA does _not_ work, because Unicode does not work in International
context.

> People who say that IDN is purely a DNS issue are confused.

It's purely a cultural issue.

> In fact, the cost of fixing UTF-8 displays is much _smaller_ than the
> cost of fixing IDNA displays. UTF-8 has been around for many years, =
has
> built up incredible momentum (as illustrated by RFC 2277), and =
already
> works in a huge number of programs.

In international context, it is technically impossible to properly
display Unicode characters.

There is no implementation exist.

While some implementations work in some localized context, local
character set serves better for the context.

Masataka Ohta

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