IDN uses unicode because...
Debbie Garside
debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk
Tue Jul 8 23:23:14 CEST 2008
Thanks
Debbie
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From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no
[mailto:idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Mark Davis
Sent: 08 July 2008 21:38
To: debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk
Cc: Frank Ellermann; idna-update at alvestrand.no
Subject: Re: IDN uses unicode because...
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This document makes interesting reading, albeit out of date.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-----
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> [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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