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

John,

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

Oh?  You mean that Unicode does not fit directly -- ie, with no special
encoding rules -- into 32 bits, or 24 bits, or somesuch.

You mean that Unicode does not need special rules to stuff it into 8 bits, and
another set of rules to stuff it into 16 bits?

Because if the answer is that yes it does -- and the answer _is_ yes it does
-- then my point stands.

That's the difference between native representation, versus "encoding".

d/
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