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Re: [idn] The layers and character handling in DNS
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Subject: Re: [idn] The layers and character handling in DNS
- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:56:13 -0800
- Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:57:25 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 2:52 PM -0500 2/15/01, Keith Moore wrote:
>so what you're saying is that, at least in some parts of the world,
>folks won't be able to use IDNs until they upgrade their platforms
>to support Unicode?
No, not at all. "Platforms" don't need to support "Unicode";
applications need to support IDN. The IDN protocol we are working on
has parts of The Unicode Standard in it.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium