Re: [idn] UNIX moving to UTF-8

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>]

"Carl S. Gutekunst" wrote:
> 
> >  - Windows 2000 and CE use Unicode and UTF-8
> 
> Again, the native character set of Windows 2000 is UCS-2, not UTF-8.
> There are a few applications that partially support UTF-8, notably
> Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, but that's only in some places,

Their DNS implementation allows UTF-8 encoded names, so I assumed that the
APIs for the network interfaces supported it as well. Mea culpa if this is
not the case (I am left wondering how names get resolved if that is truly
the situation however).

> Run-of-the-mill Windows APIs do not support UTF-8 and will not
> reliably pass it without damage.

The interface to DNS would seem to be the important part for this group,
and apparently it does support UTF-8.

Good question to ask though, does Solaris' UTF-8 support extend to the
resolver APIs?

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