> There are a lot of bugs and problems
> if you look into this more carefully.
It would be interesting to know EXACTLY what you think is
the problem or problems.
> For example, try typing the sample domain name provided
> into a Chinese MSIE broswer. Or try Chinese URL (take it
> from www.idns.org) on a English MSIE. And there are also a few
> buggy downcasing by MSIE which cause 'wrong' UTF-8 been send out.
1) Have you set the "always send URLs in UTF-8" "advanced Internet" option?
2) Are the names stored in the DNS system stored in the UTF-8 encoding?
3) Is the browser using the correct 'charset' when reading the pages?
If any of those things are amiss, then there will be problems.
But none of *those* problems have much impact on this discussion,
since they will simply not be problems with the DNS, but other
problems.
So maybe IE is not bug free (who assumed that ;-), but that
is then a problem with a particular version of IE, not with
actually using names in UTF-8 with HTTP. These problems are
likely to be easily fixed with nearly no glitches at all.
Quite different from using TESes for small portions of text,
which makes it so hard that it WILL have perpetual glitches
in various software. Fixing 10 out of 1000 glitches does not
help much, and new gliches will too easily appear.
Do you have any examples with actual textual URLs, rather
than just images...? ;-)
Kind regards
/kent k