Re: [idn] Unicode tagging

[RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>]

>> But one example of being fair is that
>> if 63 characters are allowed using ASCII, 63 characters must also be
>> allowed using ISO 8859-1 (or other latinbased character sets).
>> When we use UTF-8, the protocol will have space for more ASCII characters
>> than ISO 8859-1 characters. To be fair, ASCII must still be restricted
>> to 63 characters even if the protocol have space for more.
>> This restriction is also very important for implementors.

        This proposal would completely hose languages with lots 
of diacritical marks present on a single "letter", such as Vietnamese.  
So I object strenuously.

Ran
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