Re: Backwards compatible

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From: Claus Färber (list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 14:52:00 CDT


Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> schrieb/wrote:
> In <8UniEBR3cDB@3247.org> list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber) writes:
>> What I'm concerned about is the use of UTF-8 in machine-parsed addresses
>> such as newsgroup names. Here any transformation will cause serious
>> problems.

> Which is why our draft explicitly forbids all such transformation.

Which will, of course, cause all leagacy software to refrain from such
things. I see.

Claus

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