On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:54:49AM -0700, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote: > Thanks, those are very good points. A few notes on your proposed > changes to the security considerations: > > > 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.
Well, I dont think the bullets should be in the repertoire for IDN. > >+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. And there we have a strong correlation, ISO-8859-1 and ISO-2022 are very common on systems. Kind regards keld
