Re: [idn] Debunking the ACE myth

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

--On 01-07-18 06.46 +0000 "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> wrote:

> What went wrong is that the browser displayed the address as Unicode
> characters. The address then passed through the (CTEXT UTF-8, although
> UTF8_STRING would be better) copy-and-paste mechanism, the UTF-8 xterm,
> the mail client, and the 8-bit-clean MTA, none of which converted back
> to ACE. The resulting UTF-8 DNS lookup produced NXDOMAIN.

In the IDNA proposal we have specified that an application which handle
IDNA (like you seem to say that the browser is) only support IDNA if also
the content of the clipboard is converted to ACE before the domainname is
passed to other applications (which doesn't handle IDNA/ACE solution).

  paf