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list-ietf-rfc822(_at_)faerber(_dot_)muc(_dot_)de (Claus Färber) writes:
D. J. Bernstein <djb(_at_)cr(_dot_)yp(_dot_)to> schrieb/wrote:
The crucial advantage of UTF-8 is its generality: it can and will be
used everywhere.
That can actually be a problem w.r.t. addresses (domain names, email
addresses, newsgroup names): An editor does not guarantee anything about
the normalisation form of its output.
Actually, I believe that decent editors will ensure normalised output.
Whether all editors will turn out to be decent, remains to be seen though.
And actually, it is keyboard drivers that need to get it right in the
main. They should never let the editor see an unnormalised form.
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