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Re: I don't want to be facing 8-bit bugs in 2013

2002-03-20 19:10:02
While the discussion of the use of various character set is interesting
topic, one which is also of interest to IDN WG, such prolonged discussion
are better carried out in a forum which is dedicated to this, such as
intloc-discuss(_at_)ops(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org, a list which is formed to talk 
about the
generic problem of I18N and L10N in IETF, and not IDN.

Please bring it over to the other list and when/if there is a conclusion,
please keep the IDN informed.

Thanks.

-James Seng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Masataka Ohta" 
<mohta(_at_)necom830(_dot_)hpcl(_dot_)titech(_dot_)ac(_dot_)jp>
To: "Erkki Kolehmainen" <erkki(_dot_)kolehmainen(_at_)tieke(_dot_)fi>
Cc: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb(_at_)cr(_dot_)yp(_dot_)to>; 
<idn(_at_)ops(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org>; <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: I don't want to be facing 8-bit bugs in 2013


Erkki I. Kolehmainen;

The use of local character sets (encoding) is doomed for particularly ww
information interchange.

Interestingly enough, ww information interchange is working very
well with local character sets.

The reason is because only people sharing a language, a scripting
system and a character encoding system join each exchange, regardless
of whether it is ww or intranational.

For example, ww IETF communication is with English, Latin script and
ASCII. Introduction of ISO-8859-1 or Unicode does not make IETF use
Finnish.

Your attempt to put ISO-8859-1 characters is not acceptable for me
and your mail is filtered to be pure ASCII by my mailer, which is
fair because many of us have no way to input non-ASCII ISO-8859-1
characters.

Masataka Oha