The current focus is on an ascii-encoding for the binary domain name
data. hence, it can be carried within any existing domain name processing
software.
d/
At 06:51 AM 6/22/2001, Charles Lindsey wrote:
Has any thought been given to how such charsets will appear in mail
addresses? Some extension to RFC 2047, perhaps, to allow it to be used
within addr-specs?
My immediate problem is this. There is a convention that if you want to
post a news article to comp.foo.moderated, then you email it to
comp-foo-moderated(_at_)moderators(_dot_)isc(_dot_)org
and in due course it gets approved (or not) by the moderator, and appears
on Usenet. Observe the convention (now built into all news systems)
whereby each '.' in the newsgroup-name is converted to a '-'. So far, so
good.
In the future, however, there will be newsgroup-names involving non-ASCII
character set, such as
dk.test.blåbægrød
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