Re: [idn] UCS/UTF-8 is needed for interoperability

["David Leung \(Neteka Inc.\)" <david@neteka.com>]

> There have been much talk about UTF-8 as the solution with mind
> set on the client.
>
> But the most important thing is that if we are going to make
> it easy to interoperate between systems we must agree on the
> format of data in the protocols.
> Today it is a mess filled with lots of formats. Just look at
> e-mail and MIME - just the code needed to decode or encode
> a e-mail header is big and complex. That is why it is so difficult
> to make programs use e-mail. Think how easy it would have been
> if all header lines had used UTF-8!

I agree with that. We can use EDNS or something similar to denote that it is
UTF8 : )

> We need ONE format for character data. UCS encoded as UTF-8 normalised
> form C
> is the best choice.
>
> Locally in a system you will still use a local character set.
> But think how easy the code will be:
> - One library to handle the conversion between UCS and local charcter
> set
>   that can be used by all programs.
> - Much simplified parsing, no embedded character set switches.

Or we can even have ACE in zone file and the DNS generate the UTF8 in
memory...

David Leung
Chief Technology Officer
Neteka Inc.
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