Re attached: The use of local character sets (encoding) is doomed for particularly ww information interchange.
Local font crafting is quite another issue. With the newly introduced capability in the UCS (ISO/IEC 10646) and Unicode to predefine sequences for decomposed characters, font manufacturing is likely to also improve. Sincerely, _____________________________________________ Erkki I. Kolehmainen TIEKE Tietoyhteiskunnan kehittämiskeskus ry TIEKE Finnish Information Society Development Centre Salomonkatu 17 A 10, FIN-00100 HELSINKI, FINLAND Tel: +358 9 4763 0301, Fax: +358 9 4763 0399 http://www.tieke.fi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Masataka Ohta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:34 AM To: D. J. Bernstein Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I don't want to be facing 8-bit bugs in 2013 D. J. Bernstein; > Paul Robinson writes: > > You tell him that although it's gobbledygook to people without greek > > alphabet support, it will still work. It's not convenient, but it WILL > > work. Guaranteed. > > False. IDNA does _not_ work. IDNA causes interoperability failures. IDNA does _not_ work, because Unicode does not work in International context. > People who say that IDN is purely a DNS issue are confused. It's purely a cultural issue. > In fact, the cost of fixing UTF-8 displays is much _smaller_ than the > cost of fixing IDNA displays. UTF-8 has been around for many years, has > built up incredible momentum (as illustrated by RFC 2277), and already > works in a huge number of programs. In international context, it is technically impossible to properly display Unicode characters. There is no implementation exist. While some implementations work in some localized context, local character set serves better for the context. Masataka Ohta - This message was passed through [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is a sublist of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not all messages are passed. Decisions on what to pass are made solely by Raffaele D'Albenzio.
