Merlin,
My test machines in the office run Win 98 in Chinese (Simplified and
Traditional), Japanese and Korean and they all run both IE 5.0 and Netscape.
All allow the input those native character sets into the address bar, no
problem.
If you are running a English version of Windows, and trying to type a
Chinese word (even using IME) then you are correct, it can't accept it. I
expect this to change in the future however.
Cheers,
James
James Woods
Product Manager
Tucows Inc.
www.tucows.com
www.opensrs.org
416-535-0123 ext.1491
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Merlin
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 5:58 PM
To: opensrs-discuss
Subject: Re: MLDN White Paper. Browsers and Operating Systems in all
this.
So you're telling me that I can type Chinese characters (my domain name in
Chinese) into my browsers [Address] bar, and away it will
go and find it. ?? Sorry, but it simply wont do that. For a start - you
can't type a URL address in Chinese characters into IE or
Netscape's address bar, and secondly no DNS system can handle the character
string (yet) anyway.
> > The RACE encoding (or whatever it is called) is something new, as far as
I
> > know. Browsers do not use it.
>
> Browsers will not have to know anything about RACE encoding. They just
have
> to shoot through the unencoded string in native language format. The DNS
> system will do the rest.
>
> It already can work with tlds that have enabled such systems. Try it out
at
> http://www.whats.nu/ ...
>
> --
> John Keegan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://RackShare.com
>
>
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