Re: Not ASCII chars in domain name ???

[Tiger Technologies]

At 8/23/00 12:15 PM, Charles Daminato wrote:

>Based on this encoding system - is there any chance that two strings using
>different character sets would translate to the same ASCII string?
>
>That would definitely cause problems (and is mathematically rare, but
>still statistically possible).

No, no two script systems can generate the same UTF-5 Unicode encoding.

The only danger is that an encoded Unicode string would match an 
unencoded ASCII string as currently used in the DNS, but you can check 
for that as you go along: in the unlikely event a Unicode-encoded string 
matches an existing ASCII domain/TLD/etc, you just won't be able to 
register/use that domain/TLD because it's already taken.

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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies