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

["John Stracke" <jstracke@incentivesystems.com>]

>Anyway, with the fix, there is no reason to prefer Unicode-based
>local character sets, which is not widely used today, than existing
>local character sets already used world wide.

Of course there is.  What do you do when someone wants to combine charsets 
from different nations? For example, say a Japanese man named Ohta married 
a Mexican woman whose paternal surname was Colón.  Their child's full surname, if they lived in Mexico, would be "Ohta y Colón".  If that child wants to spell their surname correctly, they can't use a 
just-European or just-Japanese character set; they probably need Unicode.

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