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Re: [idn] Unicode tagging



>
> I think the basic idea is that labels should not be significantly
> more restricted in one language than another just because the on-the-wire
> representation of certain languages might take up more space than others.
>
> But I don't know how to define a length limit that applies across all
> languages and is fair to all of them.  Maybe we just need to make sure
> that the on-the-wire representation of labels is large enough to
> accomodate reasonably-long labels in any language.

Wouldnt using uniform byte-length characters largely solve the problem?...
ie. no transformation.
that way the "count" part could actually be the character count and not the
byte count, and the limit could be set back at 63...


>
> Keith
>


Edmon