From: <DougEwell2@cs.com>
> If Michka is referring to non-compliant CESU-8 parsers, I really
> wouldn't care much because CESU-8 is supposed to live in its
> own little private world. But if people start compromising their
> UTF-8 parsers to accommodate CESU-8 "adaptively," it would
> be a great blow to UTF-8. It would essentially undo all the
> tightening-up that was accomplished by the Corrigendum, and it
> would revive all the old Bruce Schneier-style skepticism about the
> "security" of Unicode.
Actually, once its in IANA then it is legal in XML and other places, and
*everyone* will have to support it, whether they want to or not. What is
supposedly private will become quite public. IANA, after all, does not have
charsets that they register for people to "not use" and none of the people
who implement charsets defined by IANA are set up to use such a construct
anyway.
Its actually the main reason I object to the idea of submitting it to
IANA -- saying "we fear it being made public by someone else so we will make
it public ourselves to control it" is a little too much like if one were
afraid of knives and therefore chose to stab oneself (since that way one can
control how the cut is made).
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
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