Re: [idn] host name vs. domain name

[md@linux.it (Marco d'Itri)]

On Mar 16, Karlsson Kent - keka <keka@im.se> wrote:

 >> If old software can't decode CIDNUC, it can't decode UTF-8 either.
 >Most software will be able to handle UTF-8 for any text.
 >Very little software will handle CIDNUC, and has to do
Please support your claims with a rationale.

 >It seems to me that you have not been so subjected to QP and
 >BASE64 during the last decade.  I have.  My collegues have.
I have. When using not MIME-aware software usually I could not display
raw 8 bit characters either.

 >> Maybe a CIDNUC encoded domain is gibberish, but it's a kind 
 >> of gibberish
 >> I can easily type and display on a characters cell terminal.
 >Most people would consider it pure garbage, and never type it.
How do you think these lazy people would type undecoded UTF-8
characters (i.e., some 8 bit characters which may not be on their
keyboard)?

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ciao,
Marco