<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:05, Jason Dusek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason.dusek@gmail.com">jason.dusek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":77p">Although the intent of the spec is to represent characters, I<br>
contend it does not succeed in doing so. Is it wise to assume<br>
more semantics than are actually there?</div></blockquote></div><br>It is not; one of the reasons that many experts protested the acceptance of this RFC is because of its incomplete specification (and as a result there are a lot of implementations currently which *do* assume more semantics, not always compatibly with each other).<div>
<br></div><div>Punycode is "out there" now, but it's a mess and a minefield.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>
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