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Re: [idn] Fast nameprep vs. slow nameprep
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Fast nameprep vs. slow nameprep
- From: Dan Ebert <dan@enic.cc>
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 17:40:05 -0800
- CC: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 17:39:20 -0800
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- Organization: eNIC Corporation
Keith Moore wrote:
>
> note that in the case of your scenario B - a URL within a web page
> will be in the document character set, which might or might not be
> UTF-8. so it might also need translation in addition to nameprep
> and ACE.
It seems to me that there would also be a possible (probable?) need for
translation from an OS character set (Big 5, GB 2312, ISO8859-x, etc.)
to UTF-8 (and to ACE?) when a user types a multilingual domainname into
a browser's location bar.
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Dan Ebert dan@enic.cc eNIC Corporation