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Re: [idn] Who supports UDNS (ACE+UTF-8)



> Perhaps if we use UCS directly then the "count" can actually be the
> number of Unicode code points and every language will have 63
> "character" spaces to use.

Allowing for 63 characters (instead of 63 octets) per label by way of EDNS
would certainly help to motivate adoption.

I think that it is probably also feasible to adopt a "continuation" syntax
in ACE as part of a backwards compatibility. Perhaps a special byte
sequence (like soft-hyphen) could be reserved for this purpose, allowing a
pair of ACE labels to be interpreted as a single label.

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