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Re: [idn] Re: back to the future
As I understand from Patrik's example of his middle name, ":" in Swedish is a
character, not a punctation.
For example, we could say we allow ":" only if the rest of the string is not a
number. This is what I mean by having some "consideration" in nameprep.
However, we may be opening a rathole here once we go started on this path. (@,
', & is going to be more tricky...) Aside, if we allow H:son, then there is no
reason to forbid O'Brien.
Of course, this means the application must be able to handle new form of
parsing, understanding I18N domain names. I guess that is what IDNA is for.
-James Seng
Bill Manning wrote:
>
> or just what IS that thing anyway?
>
> the ":" in what encoding method?
>
> We've had this discussion a couple of times
> before and -always- end up in semantic ratholes.
>
> Patricks ":" is conceptually different than the http ":".
> To paraphrase from the good Doctor, speaking as
> HumptyDumpty; "Glyphs mean want I want them to mean. The
> question is who is to be master?"
>
> Pick an encoding.
>
>
> % 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
>
> --bill