Re: [idn] IDNRA comments

[James Seng <James@Seng.cc>]

Could you explain what is the behavior of the "raw" interface?

What does it accept? Any charset? 

-James Seng

Keith Moore wrote:
> 
> there is a twist in the twist as well.
> 
> I could see providing an alternate "raw" interface to DNS for
> queries for non-ascii-encoded IDNs.  but even if that is done
> and resolver software is upgraded to use it, the ascii-encoded
> versions of IDNs will still need to be used in other contexts,
> such as email headers.
> 
> so it's not clear what is to be gained by having a raw query interface,
> other than the possibility of slightly different results depending
> on which interface is used, due to implementation differences (presumably
> bugs).
> 
> it sounds nice to provide a raw interface, but I'm not sure it's a win.
> 
> Keith