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

[Johnny Eriksson <bygg@cafax.se>]

"Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org> wrote:

> >...but could also on my buissness card have (if the ACE ends up being RACE):
> >
> >   bq--abtoi3duon2hf5tn .com
> 
> Sorry, but I very strongly doubt that this should be done, and that
> very many people will want to embarrass themselves that way.

If I had a domain name with non-ASCII characters in it, I would certainly
provide the ACE-encoded version as well, to help people that might not be
able to use the non-ASCII characters.  As noted by other people in this
discussion there might be several reasons for this.

When AT&T publish something like "1-800-CALL-ATT" they usually embarrass
themselves by providing "1-800-2255-288" as well.

Final note:  In this thread the ACE encoded string "bq--abtoi3duon2hf5tn"
has survived in several messages.  Patriks family name, on the other hand...

> Regards,   Martin.

--Johnny