>>actually there are some non-english language site names, i know
of a thai language "dns" service which i *think* operates like a
bookmark service.<<
The base domain name is still 7-bit ascii. There are a couple of services
that perform some interesting, limited hacks in order to allow non-ascii
characters, but that's what they are, hacks. The DNS system would have to be
massively overhauled (replaced) in order to support double-byte characters.
I've written DNS protocol-level software, and the packet formats just don't
have the flexibility. And, SMTP can't handle 8 bits, let alone 16. :)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 22:25
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Chinese language
> Cold Fusion does not support Unicode characters. I'm not sure if there's a
> Chinese language version of CF or not, Allaire's site is not fully
> functional.
no there isn't a chinese cf version. we'll most likely have to wait for
cf5.0
for full function unicode.
> >>3. I was told there are chinese character domain name and email
address,
> is that true? if yes, how do we search for such email addresses and domain
> names?
>
> No, that is false. The SMTP and DNS only support 7-bit ASCII characters,
and
> even a few of those are off-limits.
actually there are some non-english language site names, i know
of a thai language "dns" service which i *think* operates like a
bookmark service.
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