Re: [Ltru] Re: Solving the UTF-8 problem

 > Will people have the patience to wait a few days before going ahead and
 > using the beta as if it were official?  If they don't, that eliminates
 > the whole benefit of having a beta.

The only fields that can contain non-ASCII characters are Description 
and Comment fields. Neither has a stability guarantee and neither is 
normative. A data encoding error, furthermore, would probably cause 
implementation failures rather than lead to enshrinement of mojibake.

A beta period for the registry is critical for stabilized fields. 
However, I note that IANA wouldn't ever change a record sent by the LSR 
(we require whole records to be sent) and we introduced a "beta-period" 
for the final record in 4646bis. An additional beta for the registry 
seems like gilding the lily.

Addison

-- 
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.

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