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Postel's razor applied to ACE

2000-12-08 18:10:03
If ACE wanted to be liberal with what it accepts, it would not 
insist that applications "MUST" stop with an error when it finds
that the encoded string has an ASCII representation.  Political 
decisions about uniqueness should not require everyone to have 
to upgrade their servers to software that thinks it knows which 
of the Unicode table entries correspond directly to ASCII glyphs. 

For what applications would ACE be superior to UTF-5?

Is there an Internet Draft describing the differences between 
the two?

Cheers,
James



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