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Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution
- From: "Adam M. Costello" <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 07:58:49 +0000
- Delivery-date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:59:34 -0700
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Dan Oscarsson <Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se> wrote:
> ACE: to work as in IDNA the name must be nameprepped before encoded
> using ACE.
> UTF-8: need only be normalised.
Why even normalize it? If you intend to require DNS servers to perform
Unicode case-folding in order to perform the lookup, then why not have
them perform normalization as well?
AMC