RE: [idn] host name vs. domain name

[Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@qsm.co.il>]

Title: RE: [idn] host name vs. domain name

The link http://Alliancefrançaise.eu.nu/  is reachable from Israel, with Hebrew IE5.01, although the "ç" displayed as the corresponding Hebrew letter in CP-1255 and I had to use the Character Map to type it - cut and paste made it a "/c". Also, most of the images don't show.

 

Jony

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-idn@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-idn@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of Karlsson Kent - keka
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 4:33 PM
To: 'a.irvine@bfs.phone.com'
Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
Subject: RE: [idn] host name vs. domain name

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Irvine [mailto:airvine@corp.phone.com]
...
> > See http://www.nic.nu/Local-Language.htm and
> > http://www.nic.nu/eu-lang-test.htm.
> >
> > Most of the test links works for me (both in UTF-8 mode and,
> > ahem, CP1252 mode in IE5).
>
> Wow cool,
> http://Alliancefrançaise.eu.nu/

Great, isn't it!

> BTW, http://www.nic.nu/Local-Language.htm says:
>
> > .NU Domain names using the European Character set (ISO
> 8859-1 or Latin-1) now resolve on the Internet using our
> testbed subdomain
> >                      eu.nu. It's the latest feature in .NU
> Domain Ltd's local language domain name service.
> >
>
> Er, the European 'Character set' is the MES-2 subset of ISO-10646 (and
> that is latin-1, Latin-extended-A, etc).  MES-2 is a CEN norm.

Well, the slight misreference aside, MES-2 IS NOT A CEN NORM!!!
It's a so-called "Workshop Agreement" (to which several workshop
members (individuals, not NBs) disagreed, by the way).  The same
for MES-1 and MES-3.

                Kind regards
                /kent k