Kent Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the UTR 17 model, Punycode is a "Transfer Encoding Syntax" (TES), > > A few other things are TESes: UTF-7, MIME/QP, MIME/BASE64, GB/HZ, and > also the syntaxes \uhhhh of Java/C and &#xhhhhh; of XML. > > I would not simply refer to Punycode as an "encoding", as to many that > would suggest that it was a Character Encoding Scheme or Character > Encoding Form.
Would other Unicode experts concur that the title of the Punycode draft should call it a transfer encoding syntax? Or if it doesn't really fit into the model at all, should it use a vague term like "transformation" rather than "encoding"? > > sometimes [copy/paste] just retrieves a string from the GUI > > corresponding to exactly what is displayed. > > Any such system/application is SEVERELY FLAWED. Probably true, but unfortunately it's also quite common. It's the norm for X Windows applications. X is severely flawed in many ways. AMC
