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Re: [idn] nameprep forbidden characters



James Seng <James@Seng.cc> wrote:

> If RACE or some encoding which does not 7bit ASCII as-is is been
> choosen (in otherwords, UTF-8 is out), then it _may_ be possible for
> domain names to have ":" or punctations with some consideration put in
> place without causing too much havoc.

When I type http://foo:80/ into my browser, should it interpret that
as host foo port 80, or as an internationalized host name containing a
colon?  How would I specify the other?

AMC