[LINK] Dot Asia a good idea?

Christopher Vance cjsvance at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 16:39:52 AEST 2007


On 10/9/07, Tom Worthington <Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
> There is also still some debate on how to handle 16 bit character
> sets for Asian languages, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The
> easy way is to convert them to the existing ASCII subset used for
> domain names. But this is not as convenient as a native implementation.
>

Unicode / ISO10646 is a 21-bit character set.   Not everything Chinese
fits into 16.

-- 
Christopher



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