Re: [idn] URL encoding in html page

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

> Granted, such 128-bit characters might be useful. This would allow various
> organizations to define their own characters sets. Space in the global
> character encoding space would be allocated in the same way as
> IP address space is allocated under IPv6.
>
> But to conserve file space, it would probably be best to allow intermixing
of
> 128-bit characters with ASCI text. UTF-8 continues to be the way to do
> this, since it just a compression scheme that does not really depend on
the fact
> that Unicode is currently limited to 32 bits. It could just as easily be
extended
> to work with much larger character sets.

Agrees, the design of how UTF-8 encodes and decodes can be expanded to
support more bits... so that's why UTF8 should be reasonable to be the long
term solution for designing i18n applications, including IDN...