Re: [idn] An experiment with UTF-8 domain names

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

At 07.55 +0000 01-01-05, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
>Keith Moore writes:
>>  all apps will have to be modified (many will require significant
>>  modification) if they want to deal meaningfully with IDNs.
>
>False. As demonstrated above, qmail and djbdns already work with UTF-8
>domain names. They're both widely deployed. Apparently Microsoft also
>has some clients and servers that work with UTF-8 domain names.

They have to be changed because of the nameprep stage, which will 
have to be done regardless of whether you use UTF-8 or ACE or 
whatever encoding of Unicode.

   paf