Re: [idn] Moving Towards UTF8 vs ASCII(ACE) Forever

[YangWoo Ko <newcat@spsoft.co.kr>]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:20:38PM +0900, YangWoo Ko wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:11:43PM -0600, Dave Crocker wrote:
> > At 11:50 PM 3/21/2002 +0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> > >ohn Stracke writes:
> > >> For that matter, a well-designed application will not even make it
> > >> possible to enter anything but ASCII in an input field (whatever) for a
> > >> domain name.
> > >
> > >That's incredibly bad design.
> > 
> > 
> > A UI that actually enforces the syntactic rules of the underlying service?
> > 
> > Yes, indeed, that is truly a terrible idea.
> > 
> > It would be much better to let users enter strings that are not valid so 
> > that some time in the future -- they can never be sure when -- the user's 
> > string will be found to be invalid and cause an error return to the user -- 
> > again, sometime later.
> > 
> > Absolutely a superior outcome!
> 
> in that sense, current design of ms ie is very bad.
> it just sends non ldh input to their seach engine !

i withdraw above wrong statement.

yves corrected me that "if the address looks like a domain name, 
ie first does a dns lookup of the domain name after encoding it 
in UTF-8"

thanks to yves.

i am still worndering what "looks like a domain name" means.

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