Any chance that in doing so, one might inadvertantly register an
offensive foreign word?
e.g., if I register my ADASASKLDLJSA.com, and ADASASKLDLJSA happens
to un-encode to "bite me" under some character set, isn't that an
issue?
D
At 12:49 PM -0700 8/23/00, Tiger Technologies wrote:
>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.
>
>--
>Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
