Re: [idn] Re: 7 bits forever!

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

>Again you have fallen into the common underestimation of the upgrade work
>required for ACE to work perfectly (including display).  What I see is 
that
>applications are already having some trouble going from ASCII and local
>encoding to UTF.  ACE in essence requires the conversion from local 
encoding
>toUTF first and then toACE.  I see trouble here...

Yeah, but I suspect it's smaller than you think; once you've got UTF-8 in 
place, adding the UTF-8/ACE conversion would be a lot simpler.  In any 
case, I don't think we can do without ACE, at least as a transition, which 
means that a later transition from ACE to UTF-8 wouldn't reduce the 
complexity much (you'd still need to talk to ACE-based servers).

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