[Ltru] Re: UTF-8

On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 12:34:47PM +0200,
 Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote 
 a message of 62 lines which said:

> I've no clue what FTP clients would do with something like that.
> John's "net-UTF-8" draft isn't ready, and I had some troubles to
> understand his last published version.

John Klensin's draft-klensin-net-utf8-02.txt addresses a very
important point: how to represent the end-of-line? Try yourself now:
the registry transferred from the IANA site with FTP or with HTTP does
not have the same end-of-line (and that's what crashed your awk file,
in the bug report I sent you privately).

I did not read the record-jar draft yet. I hope it addresses the
issue. Otherwise, this is one more reason to move to XML :-)

> We've no clear idea which tools will exist for the 4646 format in
> six months, how they do their updates (http or ftp), and what local
> conversions they use.  Doug already proposed that an UTF-8 version
> might have to keep the &amp; convention, that could be confusing.
> And we'd have to decide if a signature is required, another change
> of the record-jar ABNF.

This is the sort of things that happen when you reinvent the wheel,
and create a new format for a registry, instead of trusting existing
formats...

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