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Re: IDN security violation? Please comment

2005-02-23 20:21:13
Hi -

From: "Bruce Lilly" <blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com>
To: <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Cc: "Martin Dürst" <duerst(_at_)w3(_dot_)org>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: IDN security violation? Please comment
...
selection.  Unicode code size increased overnight by more than 4
orders of magnitude (a factor of 65536) when it went from 16 bits
65536 code points) to 32 bits (over 4 billion code points) at the
...

Only code points from U+0000 to U+10FFFF are permitted.
That's less than 32 bits worth of possible code point values.
See http://www.unicode.org/faq/basic_q.html#19 for details.

Randy



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