----- Original Message ----- From: "D. J. Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > As you can easily see from a web search, people consistently and > correctly refer to 8859-1, KOI-8, UTF-8, etc. as being ASCII-compatible. > The use of ``ASCII'' to mean ``7-bit'' is a silly mistake in some recent > IETF documents: specifically, RFC 2130 and this group's ``ACE'' garbage. > Now that the error has been pointed out, it can easily be fixed. I agree on dropping out "ASCII-compatible". Rather, I suggest to use "ASCII coded" or "ASCII coding".
As Adam pointed out, it will be useful to have two seperate names for "bq--xxxxxx" and its subpart "xxxxxx". Suggestion: for an unicode label A, the conversion of A into the "xxxxxx" is called as BOOTSTRING-646. And the one into "bq--xxxxxx" is called in IDN context as "ACUD" (ASCII Coding of Unicode Domain) or "ACUL" (ASCII Coding of Unicode Label ) or "UTF-LDH". Soobok Lee
