At 14:19 02/09/2002 +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 06:34:34PM +0100, > Stephen Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 82 lines which said: > > > Firstly, I believe we should examine a process that deploys quickly the > > fullest possible range of 8-bit ascii characters. > > Many of these, especially accented characters, were sidelined by us Anglos > > or unnecessarily hi-jacked by operating systems (especially by Unix). This > > is a quick fix, but will give great benefits to the populations of Western > > Europe, South America, much of Africa and ex-colonies of Western > > "Imperialist" nations in general. > >There is not one 8-bits character set which can be used for all the >European languages, unless you convince many countries to change their >default script :-) >snip.. >So, although "Let's make the simple thing first and we'll see later >for the complicated one" is often reasonable, it cannot work here. We >need Unicode from the beginning (handling Unicode only is simpler than >handling Latin-1, Latin-2 and Greek, and waiting Bulgaria to join with >its Cyrillic alphabet).
If you deploy the fullest possible range of ASCII codes, in *practice* a huge range of usable domains will become available. It may be that by allowing "�l�ve.com" you may eliminate a Bulgarian word that happens to use exactly the same code string but it's a very long shot and results in a happy Frenchman and an unhappy Bulgarian. At the moment they are both unhappy, and this sort of intersect can happen right now anyway. Regards Steve
