> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrik Fältström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 10:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [idn] Interactions between short-term and long-term
>
>
> At 22.02 +0000 01-01-26, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> >Paul Hoffman / IMC writes:
> >> Am I missing some significant effect that ACEs might have on other
> >> long-term solutions?
> >
> >Yes. If we allow ACE-based IDNs, then we'll have to keep them working
> >during the subsequent transition to UTF-8.
>
> Why should UTF-8 be the long-term solution? Why not UCS-2 or some
> other representation?
UCS-2 should be regarded as outdated. 10646-2 (FDIS) and Unicode 3.1
adds characters on plane 01 and plane 02, that cannot be represented
in UCS-2 (though they can be represented in UTF-16, as well as UTF-8
and UTF-32). Some of those characters may be used in IDNs.
/kent k
