IDN uses unicode because...

Mark Davis mark.davis at icu-project.org
Tue Jul 8 22:37:59 CEST 2008


Here's an overview, published a little while ago.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51.html

Mark

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Debbie Garside <debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk>
wrote:

> Frank wrote:
>
> > "one of the few" instead of "the only" could be also dissing :-)
>
> This document makes interesting reading, albeit out of date.
>
> http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/multilingual/presentations/S8-Zaki.pdf
>
>
> Anyone know of more up to date stats on the use of alternative encodings on
> the web?
>
> Best regards
>
> Debbie
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no
> > [mailto:idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Frank
> > Ellermann
> > Sent: 08 July 2008 18:30
> > To: idna-update at alvestrand.no
> > Subject: Re: IDN uses unicode because...
> >
> > Shawn Steele wrote:
> >
> > >> It is a summary of RFC 5242, but likely readers don't get
> > this subtle
> > >> point.  Maybe it could be trimmed to "because no other alternative
> > >> for the IDNA purposes exists".
> >
> > > This always struck me as being a roundabout dissing of Unicode for
> > > some unknown reason.
> >
> > Did you see the publication date of RFC 5242 ?  Finding
> > something better requires time travel.
> >
> > > "IDNA uses the Unicode character repertoire because its widely
> > > adopted and one of the few globally recognized standards that
> > > encompass the needs of all users".
> >
> > "one of the few" instead of "the only" could be also dissing :-)
> >
> > > It could also be mentioned that RFC 2277 requires that standards
> > > support Unicode.
> >
> > ITYM that RFC 2277 requires support for UTF-8.  The rationale
> > draft mentions UTF-8 in conjunction with U-labels, no problem.
> >
> >  Frank
> >
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