Re: [idn] Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)

Dave Crocker scripsit:

> That's right.  It is an "encoding".  Raw Unicode takes more than 8-bits.  Lots
> more.  UTF-8 is a method of encoding those raw bits into a non-raw form.

[snip]

> It might be a more efficient encoding, but it is no more "native" or "direct"
> or "raw" than ACE.

That's only true if you take the position that there are no native/direct/raw
encodings of Unicode.

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