Re: [idn] Do you want ASCII forever?

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

Dan Oscarsson <Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se> writes:

> Before that I would like to know if most of you want to
> have ASCII forever, or if you want to move to UCS as the 
> character encoding to be used for interoperability?

UCS not an encoding.  Even today, it is possible to use the Universal
Character Set in many contexts without sacrificing compatibility with
ASCII transporting agents.

> I think it is high time for a major step forward in character set
> interoperability.

Using UCS is not necessarily a step forward in this direction.