RE: [idn] NSI Multilingual Testbed Information (fwd)

[bill@mail.nic.nu (J. William Semich)]

Agreed.

Bill

At 10:32 AM 8/27/00 -0400, Marc Blanchet wrote:
>At/À 09:59 2000-08-27 -0400, J. William Semich you wrote/vous écriviez:
>
>>The IETF has made a strong statement WRT the use of UTF-8 in
>>internationalizing names on the Internet. That's all I've said.
>
>- and imho, you are right if s/internationalizing
names/internationalization/.
>- but, one size do not necessarily fits all. (utf8 do not necessarily 
>resolve every encoding problem in the i18n universe)
>- there is other proposals that have very good merits which are not using
utf8.
>- protocol design is always a compromise: we choose the best by technical 
>merits.
>
>- And your point is right: the wg should consider heavily utf8 before 
>choosing something else. point taken.
>
>I really would like to move this discussion out.  Can we?
>
>Regards, Marc.
>
>
>>Bill
>
>
>Marc Blanchet
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