Re: [Ltru] UTF-8

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Thu, 21 June 2007 18:02 UTC

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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:01:58 -0400
To: "\"Reshat Sabiq (Re?at)\"" <tatar.iqtelif.i18n@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] UTF-8
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"Reshat Sabiq (Re?at)" scripsit:

> I'd like to get a feel for what the concerns are about using UTF-8 for
> subtag registry. Based on my testing locally, that works fine on IE, and
> firefox (the latter both on Windows and Linux). If anybody happens to
> use a shell or shell client that can't handle UTF-8, all they have to do
>  when they see a mangled character is use one of many different clients
> that can handle UTF-8. There's hardly any problem, as far as i can see.

The issue is that email is an essential part of the process, and
guaranteeing that email gets through the whole of the infrastructure
unmangled is still difficult.

-- 
Possession is said to be nine points of the law,                John Cowan
but that's not saying how many points the law might have.       cowan@ccil.org
        --Thomas A. Cowan (law professor and my father)


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