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

["James Seng" <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

While the discussion of the use of various character set is interesting
topic, one which is also of interest to IDN WG, such prolonged discussion
are better carried out in a forum which is dedicated to this, such as
intloc-discuss@ops.ietf.org, a list which is formed to talk about the
generic problem of I18N and L10N in IETF, and not IDN.

Please bring it over to the other list and when/if there is a conclusion,
please keep the IDN informed.

Thanks.

-James Seng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Masataka Ohta" <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: "Erkki Kolehmainen" <erkki.kolehmainen@tieke.fi>
Cc: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>; <ietf@ietf.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: I don't want to be facing 8-bit bugs in 2013


> Erkki I. Kolehmainen;
>
> > The use of local character sets (encoding) is doomed for particularly ww
> > information interchange.
>
> Interestingly enough, ww information interchange is working very
> well with local character sets.
>
> The reason is because only people sharing a language, a scripting
> system and a character encoding system join each exchange, regardless
> of whether it is ww or intranational.
>
> For example, ww IETF communication is with English, Latin script and
> ASCII. Introduction of ISO-8859-1 or Unicode does not make IETF use
> Finnish.
>
> Your attempt to put ISO-8859-1 characters is not acceptable for me
> and your mail is filtered to be pure ASCII by my mailer, which is
> fair because many of us have no way to input non-ASCII ISO-8859-1
> characters.
>
> Masataka Oha
>