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Re: [idn] Document Status?

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on 9/1/2002 10:45 PM Eric A. Hall wrote:

> Unless an application is willing to explicitly claim support for
> ACE encoded domain names,
  ^^^^^^^^^^^
 internationalized

> there can be no guarantee that the recipient
> application will be able to make sense of the domain name.

...so the default will always be ASCII.

Proof: dozens if not hundreds of common applications that accept i18n data
as input and don't error out until the back-end protocol(s) fail.

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