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Re: [idn] IDNRA comments
Could you explain what is the behavior of the "raw" interface?
What does it accept? Any charset?
-James Seng
Keith Moore wrote:
>
> there is a twist in the twist as well.
>
> I could see providing an alternate "raw" interface to DNS for
> queries for non-ascii-encoded IDNs. but even if that is done
> and resolver software is upgraded to use it, the ascii-encoded
> versions of IDNs will still need to be used in other contexts,
> such as email headers.
>
> so it's not clear what is to be gained by having a raw query interface,
> other than the possibility of slightly different results depending
> on which interface is used, due to implementation differences (presumably
> bugs).
>
> it sounds nice to provide a raw interface, but I'm not sure it's a win.
>
> Keith