From: Per Abrahamsen (abraham@dina.kvl.dk)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 07:55:41 CDT
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> Please get rid of UTF-8 group names
That will mean hierarchy and server specific group name encodings.
The only reason the dk.* hierarchy doesn't already use Latin-1 in
group names, is that I keep claiming the next standard will mandate
UTF-8, and that using Latin-1 will make the transition harder.
It is not an issue where we can afford to wait for the perfect
solution. Specifying UTF-8 at least point in the right direction, and
where normalization is required, good implementations will use the
latest recommendations from other sources.
> because only a tiny fraction of users will ever need them.
That is absurd, all non-English speaking users will need them.
Germans may be able to live with stripped accents, but as soon as both
the standard and some popular software (MSOE) support them, local
groups will start getting names with accents.
For speakers of languages whose letters are not just those in ASCII +
accents, local groups already use non-ASCII letters from local
character sets, when popular software support it.