AW: AW: AW: sharp s (Eszett)
Paul Hoffman
phoffman at imc.org
Tue Mar 18 02:41:50 CET 2008
At 7:36 PM -0400 3/17/08, John C Klensin wrote:
>Yes. And because of how IDNA2003 works, nothing can talk you to
>"maßlos.de" because, regardless of what can be typed, that
>string (or, more specifically, its ACE equivalent) cannot be
>registered. Note that, even if one uses Maßlos.DE to get to
>it, the result is not an IDN (its DNS form is the ASCII
>"masslos.de", not a punycode-encoded ACE) which is the source of
>even more confusion.
The phrase "nothing can talk to" seems wrong. Entering maßlos.de into
a browser location bar correctly converts to masslos.de, and the
browser can "talk to" it.
Did you mean something different?
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