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Re: [idn] host name vs. domain name
- Subject: Re: [idn] host name vs. domain name
- From: md@linux.it (Marco d'Itri)
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:24:50 +0100
- Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:42:34 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
- User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.9i
On Mar 16, Karlsson Kent - keka <keka@im.se> wrote:
>> If old software can't decode CIDNUC, it can't decode UTF-8 either.
>Most software will be able to handle UTF-8 for any text.
>Very little software will handle CIDNUC, and has to do
Please support your claims with a rationale.
>It seems to me that you have not been so subjected to QP and
>BASE64 during the last decade. I have. My collegues have.
I have. When using not MIME-aware software usually I could not display
raw 8 bit characters either.
>> Maybe a CIDNUC encoded domain is gibberish, but it's a kind
>> of gibberish
>> I can easily type and display on a characters cell terminal.
>Most people would consider it pure garbage, and never type it.
How do you think these lazy people would type undecoded UTF-8
characters (i.e., some 8 bit characters which may not be on their
keyboard)?
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ciao,
Marco