For the benefit of the list, which I forgot to include in my reply to John on Monday.
Cheers, James -----Original Message----- From: James M Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 19, 2004 11:18 AM To: 'John Keegan' Subject: RE: New IDN Punycode Questions Hi John, The language tag is simply a registry requirement, which to our understanding is used to further segment IDN registrations for reporting purposes at the registry, or as you put it a marker to further identify IDN's (beyond the xn-- prefix). Cheers, James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Keegan Sent: April 18, 2004 9:52 PM Subject: New IDN Punycode Questions Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [216.40.36.36] (HELO c1m4.emaildefenseservice.com) by fr1.webmaillogin.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with SMTP id 830741; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:22:54 -0400 Received: from www.opensrs.org [216.40.33.61] (EHLO www.opensrs.org) by c1m4.emaildefenseservice.com (mxl_mta-1.3.7-9) with ESMTP id 9e733804.7257.378.c1m4; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:22:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by www.opensrs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA04554 for dev-list-outgoing; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:02:55 -0400 Received: from fr1.webmaillogin.com (fr1.webmaillogin.com [216.40.35.65]) by www.opensrs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA04551 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:02:54 -0400 Received: from [216.40.36.35] (HELO c1m3.emaildefenseservice.com) by fr1.webmaillogin.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with SMTP id 829351 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:02:54 -0400 Received: from rackshare.com [64.39.14.147] (EHLO www.rackshare.com) by c1m3.emaildefenseservice.com (mxl_mta-1.3.7-9) with ESMTP id 70333804.26625.339.c1m3; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:01:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (www.rackshare.com [64.39.14.147]) by www.rackshare.com (8.9.3-SOL3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA20327 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 21:02:37 -0500 From: "John Keegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: " " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: New IDN Punycode Questions Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 21:51:30 -0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]:55025> X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 4.2.1 us <http://www.ctmdev.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rackshare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.07, required 10, AWL) X-MX-Spam: exempt X-MX-MAIL-FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-MX-SOURCE-IP: [64.39.14.147] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk X-MX-Spam: exempt X-MX-MAIL-FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-MX-SOURCE-IP: [216.40.33.61] When using the new IDN Conversion tool at the URL found in the recent reseller update, it is possible to convert to and from Punycode without specifying a "Language Code". But the new RCL code and the update to the Horizon RWI has the "Language Code" option required when registering or transferring a domain name of the IDN persuasion. What is the purpose of this language code, as it seems one can do conversions to and from UTF-8 without it? Is it actually the marker for an IDN, i.e. if the domain has a language code it's an IDN? IDNs, formerly known as multilingual domain names... "Internationalized domain names" as if domain names were not previously international. -- John Keegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://RackShare.com
