"D. J. Bernstein" wrote:
>
> Eric A. Hall writes:
> > The number of systems which will break with UTF-8
>
> Details, please.
>
> My UNIX list at the bottom of http://cr.yp.to/proto/idn.html includes
> gethostbyname() (some versions of which have already been fixed), mutt,
> pine, and sendmail. Are you claiming that something else needs to be
> upgraded? If so, what? We want verifiable facts.
If I had kept a list of every device and application that broke when a
customer of mine thought "_" was legal, I'd gladly give it to you.
Those systems enforce LDH, and will reject non-LDH sets.
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
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