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Re: IDN (was Did anyone tell Microsoft yet?)

2002-05-02 04:32:23

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On Wednesday 01 May 2002 00:28, Eric A. Hall wrote:
Marc Mutz wrote:
The main problem is therefore the domain part. I must admit that I
haven't yet read the IDN/punycode draft(s?), but what is the problem
with using that for the domain?

The biggest problem is that 2047 would not produce labels that conform to
the historically significant subset of letters-digits-hyphen (LDH) which
constitute the hostname syntax used by most applications.
<snip>

You misunderstood me here. I meant: "what's the problem with using punycode 
for the domain part". rfc2047 was re: local-part.

Marc

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Marc Mutz <mutz(_at_)kde(_dot_)org>
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