Re: [idn] Let's go forward with IDNA and UTF-8

[Mats Dufberg <dufberg@nic-se.se>]

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Dan Oscarsson wrote:

> Not if you compare UDNS with IDNA.
> In IDNA you do nameprep (and destroy information) in the client.
> In UDNS, all UTF-8 encoded data is using normalised UCS form C.
> The "nameprep" equivalent is only used in matching of names.
> So name can retain all information.

Still, it has nothing to do with the choice between ACE and UTF-8. The
decision to have nameprep is based on reasoning in a different dimension.
You could have ACE without nameprep.


Mats

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