[guardian-dev] Straw poll for ostel.co feature

Hans of Guardian hans at guardianproject.info
Mon Jun 24 18:19:00 EDT 2013


I think ostel should support full UTF-8, but that said, it is a major project to do it right.  So I think it should not be part of the current work, but instead a later round. Let's get the thing working really well using only ASCII, then we can tackle UTF-8.

.hc

On Jun 24, 2013, at 6:01 PM, Lee Azzarello wrote:

> The alternative is 7-bit ASCII. If someone has an Arabic or Tibetan
> name and would like to use that as their SIP username, they are
> fucked.
> 
> This is why I brought up the poll, which still is overwhelmingly in
> favor of 7-bit ASCII.
> 
> -lee
> 
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net> wrote:
>> Lee Azzarello:
>>> Originally written on IRC
>>> 
>>> <SteeleNivenson> straw poll:
>>> <SteeleNivenson> based on the fact that SIP usernames support UTF-8
>>> and are case sensitive
>>> * SteeleNivenson ref:
>>> https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/sip-implementors/2005-June/009559.html
>>> <SteeleNivenson> should usernames at ostel.co continue to observe this
>>> part of the standard?
>>> <SteeleNivenson> yea or nay?
>> 
>> What is the alternative? 7-bit ascii?
>> 
>> What happens if someone has an Arabic, Tibetan or another relevant
>> language that UTF-8 was invented for...?
>> 
>> All the best,
>> Jacob
>> 
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