RE: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?

At 00/12/04 10:42 -0800, Christian Huitema wrote:
> So, at a minimum, we need an IETF
> specification on how to detect that a domain name part is using a non ascii
> encoding, so that DNS servers don't get lost.
Why not just use UTF-8? It is an encoding of the UCS (aka
Unicode/ISO 10646), the encoding is fully compatible with
ASCII (all 7-bit bytes are ASCII and only ASCII), and it
is IETF policy (RFC 2277).

Regards,   Martin.