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Re: [idn] Reality Check
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] Reality Check
- From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
- Date: 15 Jul 2001 19:24:26 -0000
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Adam M. Costello writes:
> IDN-incapable subscribers will be completely unable to reply
Are you saying that there are mail readers today that can't reply to a
UTF-8 address? Please identify the specific software bugs that you're
talking about.
As far as I know, there are only two relevant bugs anywhere in the
entire mail path: the UNIX gethostbyname() 8-bit bug, which in current
versions is trivially worked around with a one-line change to
/etc/resolv.conf, and the sendmail 8-bit bug.
There are certainly some programs that don't _display_ UTF-8 nicely, but
that's a separate issue. (They don't display ACE nicely either.)
---Dan