Re: [idn] URL encoding in html page

["Sun Guonian" <sun@cnnic.net.cn>]

James Seng/Personal wrote:

...
> > you can justify why designing a system that can handle ASCII as a fallback
> > and can automatically support 8/16/32 bits Unicode is not a good design,
> > then I think my thinking is wrong.
> 
> The question is really why 8/16/32 bit Unicode is better than 5bit (ACE)?

I think the former is based on character and the latter is based on string.
Maybe it is a advantage of the former for design many Applications.

> 
> 8 is not neccessary better than 5 just like 32 is not neccessary better than
> 8. It is all engineering trade off.
> 
> So what is the advantage of moving towards more bits? And how much more is
> enough?
> 
> ps: I am not agreeing or disagreeing with a transition. I reserved my
> judgement later.
> 
> -James Seng

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