Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution

[D. J. Bernstein]

Adam M. Costello writes:
> some existing applications will work to some extent by accident

You think that http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards.html#IDX20 is an
accident? You think that http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#mod
is an accident?

This is called modularity. The system is deliberately structured so that
the interpretation of bytes \200-\377 as characters is isolated inside
user-interface tools. Most code simply has to be 8-bit-clean.

---Dan