On Jul 9, 2024 at 9:59:13 AM, Dino Farinacci <farina...@gmail.com> wrote:
Major nit: Why is ASCII used for names rather than UTF-8? Related, no > mention > > of punycode as a UTF8 alternative. If UTF8 was considered and then > rejected as > > not needed, there should probably be a justfication for that decision in > the > > document. > > > This came up in the working group and we just decided ASCII was > sufficient. And since implementations lead the draft we didn't want to > obsolete them or create a compatibility issue. > I used to hear this all the time in 2004. Twenty years later, I’d have hoped that ASCII-only names for anything would be a serious code smell.
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