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Re: [idn] The purpose of IDN

--On 2002-09-01 20.37 -0700 Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:

> That is why it is so striking to see such basic issues being raised
> again, during Last Call.

Not surprising at all. People still don't understand how MIME works, and
that has only been defined since around 1993.

We will have this problem as long as we use multiple representations of
characters when moving them around as bits.

Which will be forever.

   paf