Re: [idn] URL encoding in html page

[Soobok Lee]

----- Original Message ----- From: A. Vine To: Soobok Lee Cc: IETF idn working group Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [idn] URL encoding in html page FYI, browsers and many other apps already have massive conversion libraries.   Yes. But, legacy encodings are often revised or there may be new born legacy encoding. What and how much does that affect the stable operation of  IDN  in networks of various versions of IDN-aware applications? That is my questions  on which I still has no answer. Soobok Lee IF we want to make IDN truly internationally interoperable, all IDN-aware webbrowsers/applications should contain libaries of all kinds of legacy-to-Unicode conversion routines. It will burden too much memory load on handheld devices like PDA. Moreover, legacy encodings are revised separately from unicode. We may face with as toughest versioning problems as we did in stringprep/nameprep versioning problems for newly added unicode points. How to guarantee stability and intergrity of IDN operations in the all combinations of numerous kinds and versions of iDN-aware applications and legacy encodings? Soobok Lee