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

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

At 11:50 PM 3/21/2002 +0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
>ohn Stracke writes:
> > For that matter, a well-designed application will not even make it
> > possible to enter anything but ASCII in an input field (whatever) for a
> > domain name.
>
>That's incredibly bad design.


A UI that actually enforces the syntactic rules of the underlying service?

Yes, indeed, that is truly a terrible idea.

It would be much better to let users enter strings that are not valid so 
that some time in the future -- they can never be sure when -- the user's 
string will be found to be invalid and cause an error return to the user -- 
again, sometime later.

Absolutely a superior outcome!

d/


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