Re: [idn] Why follow IDNA with UTF-8?

["Adam M. Costello" <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>]

At 14:05 01/07/15 -0700, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:

> [T]he editing interface to the host file does.  That is pretty
> trivial: a single script that converts the native-charset file (which
> does not have to be UTF-8: it can be any native charset) to the host
> file.  It took me about 5 minutes to write mine in Perl (using an
> existing ACE<=>UTF-8 routine).

Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org> replied:

> That's five minutes for each different format.  And then that's a few
> seconds every time a conversion is needed.

Okay, anyone who doesn't like that method can get a DNS server that
reads UTF-8 zone files directly (I have no doubt that such servers will
appear) and use their favorite UTF-8 capable editor to edit it.  The
encoding used by the server on the wire is orthogonal to the zone file
encoding.

AMC