Re: [idn] Moving Towards UTF8 vs ASCII(ACE) Forever

["John Stracke" <jstracke@incentivesystems.com>]

Edmon Chung wrote:

>If we collectively decide that it is NEVER going to happen and we
>will stay with ACE FOREVER, then, we should stop here and live happily 
ever
>after with ACE.  But if the general direction or consensus is to move
>towards UTF8 eventually, then, we should start the work now.

That does not follow.  A UTF-8 transition would take a very long time 
(your idea about "plugins" is nonsense; there is no plugin architecture 
that can solve this problem for every app--probably not even for any app), 
so we need a good ACE solution for at least the next 5-10 years.  Starting 
on a UTF-8 plan would consume resources that could better go into making 
the ACE solution work.

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