Re: [idn] What's wrong with skwan-utf8?

[J. William Semich]

Linux ...

See
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Unicode-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.4

as well as the more general
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Unicode-HOWTO.html

and the Linux-UTF8 mail list archive at 
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Brian has already pointed out Sun's support for UTF8 in solaris (OK, so its
not yet perfect ...)

To conclude - there is significant effort underway in the OS community to
support or to extend support for UNICODE via UTF8. There is none - so far -
for an ACE. 

Bill



At 01:05 PM 1/3/01 -0500, RJ Atkinson wrote:
>At 12:55 03/01/01, J. William Semich wrote:
>>Try "Plan 9." <grin>
>
>        Same issues as Win2K.  Lots of Plan-9 applications,
>including several MUAs, do not handle UTF8 correctly.  Unlike 
>Win2K, Plan-9 is not widely deployed, so isn't a good example
>anyway for IDN WG.
>
>        Want to try again ?  What you need are examples of
>a system where *everything* handles UTF8 correctly, particularly
>including *multiple MUAs on that platform*.  Such examples
>don't exist -- the null set as it were.
>
>        Not that I don't wish you were right, but the deployed
>reality is what it is and we ought not pretend otherwise.
>
>Ran
>
>