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Re: [idn] host name vs. domain name
Karlsson Kent - keka wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aaron Irvine [mailto:airvine@corp.phone.com]
> ...
> > > See http://www.nic.nu/Local-Language.htm and
> > > http://www.nic.nu/eu-lang-test.htm.
> > >
> > > Most of the test links works for me (both in UTF-8 mode and,
> > > ahem, CP1252 mode in IE5).
> >
> > Wow cool,
> > http://Alliancefrançaise.eu.nu/
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> Great, isn't it!
So surprised and happy it worked I nearly choked on my chicken sandwich
;-) So, if UTF8 worked here, where then does it fail?
http://domän.eu.nu/ is a useful test site, but could I ask:
1) add another domain from Latin-extended-A and another from much higher
in Unicode
2) and urgently add .wml pages to these so we can test WAP on it (I
could do a quick page in a few minutes).
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> > BTW, http://www.nic.nu/Local-Language.htm says:
> >
> > > .NU Domain names using the European Character set (ISO
> > 8859-1 or Latin-1) now resolve on the Internet using our
> > testbed subdomain
> > > eu.nu. It's the latest feature in .NU
> > Domain Ltd's local language domain name service.
> > >
> >
> > Er, the European 'Character set' is the MES-2 subset of ISO-10646
> (and
> > that is latin-1, Latin-extended-A, etc). MES-2 is a CEN norm.
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> Well, the slight misreference aside, MES-2 IS NOT A CEN NORM!!!
> It's a so-called "Workshop Agreement" (to which several workshop
> members (individuals, not NBs) disagreed, by the way). The same
> for MES-1 and MES-3.
>
Quite correct. (BTW, MES info at http://www.egt.ie/)
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> Kind regards
> /kent k
Regards and thanks,
Aaron
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Aaron Irvine
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