Harald; > <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > > > Unicode is usable in some local context. > > Agreed. Note that "some" is changing to "many" as time goes on. Irreleant, because some contexts are not compatible. The point here is that there can be no universal context. > > There is some unicode implementaion work in local contexts. > > > > However, the context information must be supplied out of band. > > Agreed. Then, how can you provide the information with IDN? > > And, the out of band information is equivalent to "charset" > > information, regardless of whether you call it "charset" or > > not. > > Do not agree. > for most values of what we currently have registered as "charset", it is > not sufficient to identify the context. That is a problem of current and past charset reviewers including you. > Therefore, depending on "charset" to identify context is not only useless, > but actively harmful. Agreed. ISO 2022 escape sequence is the way to go. > My opinion, which I stated in RFC 1766, and have found no reason to change. It was already denied by real world examples. Masataka Ohta