Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> schrieb/wrote: > second, "ASCII for the rest of our lives" is a mischaracterization. > IDNA allows applications to accept and present IDNs in native > form, without requiring all applications and infrastructure to > upgrade before IDNs can be used. [...] > users don't care whether IDN queries are encoded on the wire. This depends on your definition of "on the wire"; if you want to IDNs to just work, you would have to put the ASCII version into URIs, too. Users *do* care about URIs. If you put the UTF-8 version (%-escaped or maybe even unencoded according to a revision of the URI specs) in the URI, they won't work with leagacy software anyway (so ACE has no advantages). Claus -- ------------------------ http://www.faerber.muc.de/ ------------------------ OpenPGP: DSS 1024/639680F0 E7A8 AADB 6C8A 2450 67EA AF68 48A5 0E63 6396 80F0