D. J. Bernstein wrote:
Bruce Lilly writes:
The current Usefor draft requires UAs to support raw utf-8, which is
an encoding that is currently not required to be supported by text
message UAs. That's not "working on solutions", that's *compounding*
the real problem.
Please explain. Precisely what problem do you believe is created by the
requirement that all message handlers accept UTF-8?
N.B. I did not say it "created" a problem, I clearly stated that
it *compounded* the problem.
One problem is the one posited by Dave Barr, to which the quoted
text is a response. I.e. the requirement to support N encodings
becomes a requirement to support N+1 encodings.