Re: [idn] Re: 7 bits forever!

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

>> >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

>> 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).
>>
>There are no ACE-based servers.  the current servers can already handle 
ACE!

Fine.  But you were talking about the complexity on the client side.  A 
UTF-8 transition would add complexity on the client, not reduce it, 
because the client would then have two cases to consider: servers that 
support UTF-8, and those that don't.

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