From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 07:57:09 CDT
In <ylsmz2ibis.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>But regardless, it doesn't matter what my opinion is or what your opinion
>is; it matters what people actually implement and make work. Someone will
>at some point do that, and then hopefully we'll be able to go back and
>document it and make it a standard. If I'm right, people who try to
>implement unencoded Unicode as the general solution will run smack into a
>wall of opposition and problems when they try to deploy and that will be
>that. If I'm not, then hey, I will have learned something, and that's
>always good.
But the problem with that approach is that people will undoubtedly
implement, and make work, *something*, but it will not be UTF-8. It will be
"guess the charset", or "we use this code in this hierarchy". Which makes
it very hard for big sites like Supernews who want to carry all the
worldwide hierarchies, and makes it impossible for people who want to
crosspost between those hierarchies (that may not be common in practice,
but we do not want to preclude it).
-- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5