Re: Re: Fwd: Unicode letter ballot

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:50:29 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.idn
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--On mandag, november 25, 2002 13:10:39 +0100 Simon Josefsson 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> This message seems important for IDN.
>
> Note that if option A win the vote, it seems that stringprep/nameprep
> will have to fork the Unicode standard to remain backwards compatible
> when stringprep/nameprep updates its Unicode reference.
>

sigh.... all 5 are beyond-BMP characters added recently.
if we could go back in time, we could have implemented a policy of not 
accepting characters as stable before 2 unicode versions had gone by....

proofreading takes time.

                       Harald