Re: [idn] Fast nameprep vs. slow nameprep

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

> > 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.

I concur.

Keith