Re: [idn] Debunking the ACE myth

[Martin Duerst]

At 13:16 01/07/23 -0500, Eric A. Hall wrote:

[Paul Hoffman wrote:]

> > Not true. ACE names are quite easy to pick out of document content:
> > they have the name prefixes.
>
>This assumes that it wasn't written and stored in transliterated form. I
>would think that the native format will be the most common for
>user-written material (especially email bodies), not ACE. This goes
>against the original argument.

And please let's not forget: There is at least one form where
if things are going to work, ACE won't be used. That's paper.
If anybody is so stupid to buy an IDN to put its ACE on paper,
s/he can of course do that, but I doubt that's what many
people would want to do.


Regards,   Martin.