Re: [idn] http://pi.cr.yp.to

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

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"D. J. Bernstein" wrote:
> http://pi.cr.yp.to is a collection of tests for a typical UTF-8 domain
> name. Try it with your browser and mailer, and let me know what happens.

Netscape 4.7 on Windows resolves π.cr.yp.to correctly (but with the URI
in the location bar displayed as if it was ISO-Latin-1, on my system).

Mozilla build 2001062815 on Windows fails (displays a blank page, with
http://%CF%80.cr.yp.to in the location bar).

MSIE 5.50.4134.0600 on Windows fails with "Cannot find server or DNS Error".

The Netscape mail client doesn't allow typing or pasting non-ISO-Latin-1
into a To: field without adding quotes around the local part, and this
causes an error from the server when sending the mail.

The Mozilla mail client fails sending to bounce@π.cr.yp.to because it tries
to convert the address to "=?UTF-8?B?...=".

This message is text/plain; charset=utf-8 - try this link:

  http://π.cr.yp.to/

(works in Netscape 4.7 on Windows).

However, to send this mail from NS4.7 I had to cheat slightly: set the
character set in the View menu to UTF-8, but ignore the fact that characters
are displayed in the text composition window as ISO-Latin-1. Sending UTF-8
mail works better in Mozilla.

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