Re: [idn] Do you want ASCII forever?

["Edmon Chung" <edmon@neteka.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>
> I, too, look forward to the day when the world uses Unicode as
> universally as it uses ASCII today (i.e. when the set of systems that
> "do not use Unicode" can be described as simply as we currently say "IBM
> mainframes" to describe the systems that "do not use ASCII").  But we
> aren't there yet, and IDN cannot be the tool to force everyone else to
> get there.

The biggest problem with this "aren't there yet" attitude is not preparing
or provisioning for IDN to "get there".  If we do not start somewhere, we
will never "get there".  That is the point.  Not "we want an ideal world
now", but "lets work on the future AS WELL AS the past".

Edmon