[idn] UNIX moving to UTF-8

[D. J. Bernstein]

Keith Moore writes:
> your analysis assumes that most sites are or will be using UTF-8 locally.  
> this seems like quite a stretch as it is very different from current reality.

For extensive evidence that it's happening:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/Unicode-HOWTO.html
http://czyborra.com/utf/#UTF-8

---Dan