Re: [idn] IDN character repertoire, nameprep

[Joel Rowbottom <joel@jml.net>]

At 20:53 20/03/01 +0000, Johnny Eriksson wrote:

>In order to prohibit characters, the DNS server has to undo the ACE
>encoding.  You have just started to modify DNS, something that many
>people try desperatly to avoid.

OK. Maybe I'm missing the point here, but why aren't we just saying "OK,
character set latin-1, let's stick to that and make sure that the
accents
are there"? Then perhaps passing an extra parm on a DNS request for a
preferential character set?

I know that I've done various bits of experimentation with a few people
and
client systems notwithstanding we can actually implement most of an
internationalised character set now... so why aren't we?


Joel the Simplistic.
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