Dave Crocker wrote: > UTF-8 is an encoding. IDNA uses an encoding. Neither is a "native" > representation of the semantics. If all of the inputs and outputs are using UTF-8, then UTF-8 on-the-wire is about as close as you can get to a direct representation. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/