Re: [idn] WG last call summary

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 19:23:11 GMT, Paul Robinson 
<paul(_at_)iconoplex(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>  said:

> That's not actually completely true. Badly written software will break. In 
> particular throwing up chars to the shell might break things, but that's 
> particularly specific to a platform. Pipes won't break. Copy and Paste may 
> depending on OS, and 'from where and to where'. Generally, it won't. If it 
> does, it's because somebody has written some *really* crusty code that can't 
> handle ASCII outside 0-127. The IETF shouldn't be in the business of making 
> sure everythign works with badly written code.
Hmm.. so you're saying that *ALL* that code out there that double-checked that
things that claimed (possibly implicitly) to be USASCII were in fact in the
0-127 range are "crusty" code?

Damn.  Sendmail 8.12.3.Beta1 is crusty - it actually bothers checking.

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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