Re: Unicode is so flawed that 7 or 8 bit encoding is not an issue

2002-03-21 Thread Masataka Ohta
James; As you could have seen, on IETF mailing list, Harald and I have, at least, agreed that, if you use unicode based encoding, local context (or locale) must be carried out of band Few will disagree (including me) that using Unicode to do localization is almost impossible without

Re: Unicode is so flawed that 7 or 8 bit encoding is not an issue

2002-03-21 Thread James Seng
Few will disagree (including me) that using Unicode to do localization is almost impossible without locale context. Huh? No one said such a thing. What is agreed is that, to use unicode, it must be supplied out of band local context. In that case, I disagree with to use unicode, it must

Re: Unicode is so flawed that 7 or 8 bit encoding is not an issue

2002-03-21 Thread James Seng
[Note: IDN WG list removed] As you could have seen, on IETF mailing list, Harald and I have, at least, agreed that, if you use unicode based encoding, local context (or locale) must be carried out of band Few will disagree (including me) that using Unicode to do localization is almost

Unicode is so flawed that 7 or 8 bit encoding is not an issue

2002-03-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
James; Trying to reply your mail, my mailer says: [Charset Windows-1252 unsupported, skipping...] so, could you learn not to Microsoft centric and to use proper charset for the International discussion of IETF? While the discussion of the use of various character set is interesting