While the discussion of the use of various character set is interesting topic, one which is also of interest to IDN WG, such prolonged discussion are better carried out in a forum which is dedicated to this, such as [EMAIL PROTECTED], a list which is formed to talk about the generic problem of I18N and L10N in IETF, and not IDN.
Please bring it over to the other list and when/if there is a conclusion, please keep the IDN informed. Thanks. -James Seng ----- Original Message ----- From: "Masataka Ohta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Erkki Kolehmainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "D. J. Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:44 AM Subject: Re: I don't want to be facing 8-bit bugs in 2013 > Erkki I. Kolehmainen; > > > The use of local character sets (encoding) is doomed for particularly ww > > information interchange. > > Interestingly enough, ww information interchange is working very > well with local character sets. > > The reason is because only people sharing a language, a scripting > system and a character encoding system join each exchange, regardless > of whether it is ww or intranational. > > For example, ww IETF communication is with English, Latin script and > ASCII. Introduction of ISO-8859-1 or Unicode does not make IETF use > Finnish. > > Your attempt to put ISO-8859-1 characters is not acceptable for me > and your mail is filtered to be pure ASCII by my mailer, which is > fair because many of us have no way to input non-ASCII ISO-8859-1 > characters. > > Masataka Oha >
