Nameprep? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Leung (Neteka Inc.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "James Seng/Personal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Edmon Chung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "IETF idn working group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [idn] URL encoding in html page
> >> > you can justify why designing a system that can handle ASCII as a > fallback > >> > and can automatically support 8/16/32 bits Unicode is not a good > design, > >> > then I think my thinking is wrong. > >> > >> The question is really why 8/16/32 bit Unicode is better than 5bit (ACE)? > > >I think the former is based on character and the latter is based on string. > >Maybe it is a advantage of the former for design many Applications. > > Totally agree the advantage of the former is to be able to have existing > software or software that plans to have Unicode support to be able to work > without performing EXTRA ACE conversion!! > >
