this requires a server change. good luck.<div>v</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Shawn Steele <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com">Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I much prefer the EAI method of using UTF-8 instead of the punycode hack. (<a href="http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/eai-charter" target="_blank">http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/eai-charter</a>). Indeed several vendors already seem to be working on EAI solutions.<br>
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For one thing, punycode has proven that it clutters the layers of an application and leads to terrible confusion about when an IDN name moves from Unicode to Punycode, requiring that the application layer have a deep understanding of DNS. It'd be much better to "fix" the protocols to make them comply with RFC 2279 "Protocols MUST be able to use the UTF-8 charset", rather than provide hacks.<br>
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-Shawn<br>
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:16:53 +0100<br>
From: Nick Teint <<a href="mailto:nick.teint@googlemail.com">nick.teint@googlemail.com</a>><br>
Subject: FYI: Extending IDNA to other protocols<br>
To: <a href="mailto:idna-update@alvestrand.no">idna-update@alvestrand.no</a><br>
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Hi!<br>
<br>
Today, I've submitted several Internet-Drafts describing a proposed<br>
framework to use IDNA(bis) for non-domain addresses.<br>
<br>
The basic idea is to extract anything from the address that fits the<br>
syntax of a valid domain name "label", i.e. strings that roughly match<br>
the "LDH" syntax for "A-labels" and "U-labels". The extracted strings<br>
are then converted using a conversion very similar to IDNAbis.<br>
<br>
The draft for the base is:<br>
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-teint-xidna-base-00.txt" target="_blank">http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-teint-xidna-base-00.txt</a><br>
<br>
Examples for profiles:<br>
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-teint-xidna-email-00.txt" target="_blank">http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-teint-xidna-email-00.txt</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-teint-xidna-newsgroup-00.txt" target="_blank">http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-teint-xidna-newsgroup-00.txt</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-teint-xidna-zonefile-00.txt" target="_blank">http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-teint-xidna-zonefile-00.txt</a><br>
<br>
NT<br>
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