[idn] Re: Just send UTF-8 with nameprep

[David Hopwood <david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk>]

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Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Martin Duerst wrote:
> 
> > I don't want to disagree with your conclusion, but I'm not
> > sure about the premise (that we need the original spelling),
> > so I didn't get into the details of what would follow.
> 
> We may need original spelling, for example if we decide that we need to
> stop Arabic letters from joining, by using a ZWNJ between them (since a
> space is not available). Multiword Arabic domain names will be unreadable
> if the words join.

What's wrong with using hyphens to separate words?

(Remember that English domain names don't look like English sentences,
either.)

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