Re: [idn] time to move

[Roozbeh Pournader]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Adam M. Costello wrote:

> Finally, note that UTF-8 has issues with encoding efficiency (the
> length of the encoded string).  It's [...] bad for some other popular
> scripts like Cyrillic and Arabic, [...]

Would you describe why do you see UTF-8 bad for Arabic and Cyrillic? You
don't want to suggest usin 8-bit character sets, do you?