IDN uses unicode because...

Sam Vilain sam.vilain at catalyst.net.nz
Wed Jul 9 01:01:18 CEST 2008


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Shawn Steele wrote:
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> This always struck me as being a roundabout dissing of Unicode for
> some unknown reason.  How about:
> 
> "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".

To pick nits, "all users" is contestable.  The CJK screw-up (where for
the CJK range codepoints were arbitrarily assigned to units of meaning
rather than actual characters) springs to mind!

These sorts of things (and I've no idea how widespread they are, really,
I know only of that one for certain) are IMHO the (not so) unknown
reason Unicode gets dissed frequently...
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Sam Vilain, Chief Yak Shaver, Catalyst IT (NZ) Ltd.
phone: +64 4 499 2267        PGP ID: 0x66B25843
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