> > > UTF-8 is also dead.
> >
> > Nope. UTF8 is alive and well. Its also the only encoding validly usable for
> > unix file naming where the / and 0 character rules are laid down by POSIX
> > and the single unix specification. UTF8 is also the encoding proposed in
> > the draft multilingual DNS extensions
>
> See RFC 2277: nearly all future RFCs *MUST* do UTF-8.
*MUST* be able to pass UTF-8-encoded text, so if a program transparently
passes everything, it complies. Previously there was ASCII-only
resreiction in many protocols, however implementations ignored it, and
currently all major Internet protocols pass non-ASCII characters
transparently, so they now "automagically" comply.
-- Alex
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