Re: [idn] Re: back to the future

[James Seng <James@Seng.cc>]

As I understand from Patrik's example of his middle name, ":" in Swedish is a
character, not a punctation.

For example, we could say we allow ":" only if the rest of the string is not a
number. This is what I mean by having some "consideration" in nameprep.
However, we may be opening a rathole here once we go started on this path. (@,
', & is going to be more tricky...) Aside, if we allow H:son, then there is no
reason to forbid O'Brien.

Of course, this means the application must be able to handle new form of
parsing, understanding I18N domain names. I guess that is what IDNA is for.

-James Seng
 

Bill Manning wrote:
> 
>         or just what IS that thing anyway?
> 
>         the ":"  in what encoding method?
> 
>         We've had this discussion a couple of times
>         before and -always- end up in semantic ratholes.
> 
>         Patricks ":" is conceptually different than the http ":".
>         To paraphrase from the good Doctor, speaking as
>         HumptyDumpty; "Glyphs mean want I want them to mean. The
>         question is who is to be master?"
> 
>         Pick an encoding.
> 
> 
> % James Seng <James@Seng.cc> wrote:
> % > If RACE or some encoding which does not 7bit ASCII as-is is been
> % > choosen (in otherwords, UTF-8 is out), then it _may_ be possible for
> % > domain names to have ":" or punctations with some consideration put in
> % > place without causing too much havoc.
> %
> % When I type http://foo:80/ into my browser, should it interpret that
> % as host foo port 80, or as an internationalized host name containing a
> % colon?  How would I specify the other?
> %
> % AMC
> 
> --bill