David Leung (Neteka Inc.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's right if ACE is such a good "compression and encoding" scheme for > Unicode, I think Unicode consortium should adopts it as the new UTF-P or > UTF:-P, if they already have UTF8 that is widely use nowadays and also will > be more use in the future, why not use UTF8 as a long term, and re-inventing > the wheel now.
Punycode is not the invention of Unicode, despite the name. Unicode already has a perfectly good Standard Compression Scheme (see http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr6/). But it uses non-ASCII bytes, and so SCSU-encoded domain names would probably not pass cleanly in a world that expects ASCII-only, any more than UTF-8 would. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
