Re: [idn] Debunking the ACE myth

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 1:26 PM +0200 7/23/01, Dan Oscarsson wrote:
>Patrik said:
>  >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).
>>
>
>In that case IDNA is impossible. It is impossible for a browser to know
>what text in a web page is a host name.

Not true. ACE names are quite easy to pick out of document content: 
they have the name prefixes.

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--Internet Mail Consortium