Re: [idn] IDNRA comments

[James Seng]

This is one of the major concern in the Beijing meeting. Prof Tzeng raise the
concern that if UTF-8 & RACE is functionally equivalent, it makes no sense to
convert them to-and-back unnecessary.

-James Seng

Keith Moore wrote:
> 
> I doubt that we should constrain or expect applications to use any
> particular internal representation for characters.   If we expect them
> for instance to use UTF-8, they may then need to do multiple
> conversions, e.g.
> 
> input format -> UTF-8 -> RACE
> RACE -> UTF-8 -> output format
> 
> which hardly seems desirable.
> 
> Keith