Paul Hoffman / IMC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> When all systems use ASCII or Unicode, different >>+interpretations are not allowed in this specification. > > I think that goes too far. A user system that "uses Unicode" could > still make wrong judgements between the keyboard and the encoding. For > example, on the Mac, typing Option-8 inserts a bullet character. There > are many different bullet characters in the Unicode character > repertoire, so entering a host name that includes one of those bullet > symbols might get the wrong result. Thus, I'd rather not use that last > sentence.
Yes, I agree. >>+When involved systems use non-ASCII and non-Unicode characters (such >>+as ISO-8859-1 and ISO-2022-JP, which are common on the Internet), > > We're not concerned with what is common on the Internet, but what is > common in systems. Make it "common in systems on the Internet" then. I doubt you care about how I handle IDN's in my own disconnected system? Or just "common".
