Re: [idn] Moving Towards UTF8 vs ASCII(ACE) Forever

[YangWoo Ko <newcat@spsoft.co.kr>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:11:43PM -0600, Dave Crocker wrote:
> At 11:50 PM 3/21/2002 +0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> >ohn Stracke writes:
> >> For that matter, a well-designed application will not even make it
> >> possible to enter anything but ASCII in an input field (whatever) for a
> >> domain name.
> >
> >That's incredibly bad design.
> 
> 
> A UI that actually enforces the syntactic rules of the underlying service?
> 
> Yes, indeed, that is truly a terrible idea.
> 
> It would be much better to let users enter strings that are not valid so 
> that some time in the future -- they can never be sure when -- the user's 
> string will be found to be invalid and cause an error return to the user -- 
> again, sometime later.
> 
> Absolutely a superior outcome!

in that sense, current design of ms ie is very bad.
it just sends non ldh input to their seach engine !

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