Re: [idn] Re: Legacy charset conversion in draft-ietf-idn-idna-08.txt (in ksc5601-1987)

["Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>]

As for the case of new character addition to legacy encodings you mentioned below,
 The real problem emerges when the older version of receiving application has
  received new-version-legacy-encoded IDN(IRI) from the new version of sender application and 
  it tries to  convert that received IDN(IRI) into unicode using the *OLDER* version of
  legacy-2-unicode convesion table, but surely it will fail in some cases.

Soobok Lee

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>
 > 
> As for additions, they shouldn't cause a problem anyway, because they
> don't break existing legacy-to-Unicode mappings.  An often-mentioned
> case of adding to a legacy encoding was when Microsoft retrofitted
> U+20AC EURO SIGN onto their Windows code pages (mostly at previously
> unassigned code position 0x80).  The only people who suffered at all
> were the ones who thought "unassigned" somehow meant that they should
> map 0x80 to U+0080.  Everyone else made it just fine.
> 
> -Doug Ewell
>  Fullerton, California
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