From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 06:27:47 CDT
In <8Us3BXoJcDB@3247.org> list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber) writes:
>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.
I am not aware of any legacy software that is even aware of UTF-8 in
machine-parsed addresses, let alone is capable of transforming them in any
way.
OTOH, any newly written software that did such a thing would immediately
be in violation of our draft.
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