I think this is overcomplicated :-)
Consider this domain:
wowthisischinese-xfagarer.com
It is a legal domain name, right? If you register it, it is accessible from
your browser, resolved by the DNS, etc. If we consider "wowthisischinese" as
a prefix, which shows the decoding method used to decode/encode xfagarer, we
have multilingual domain names. No need to modify BIND, sendmail, etc.
Just consider a prefix like ggg222xxx, where xxx is the country-code (more
precisely the char-encoding code). All we would need after this is some
modifications to our clients - which we will need anyway, right? - , like
our browsers to be able to use ("see") the new domains, that is, to
translate ggg222001-asdfsdafghljk to jónapotkívánok.com.
What's this issue about BIND and all, then?
- Csongor
> AFAIK none of them yet - but I'm just guessing :)
>
> Charles Daminato
> Product Manager (ccTLDs)
> Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex Kells
> > Sent: February 22, 2001 12:53 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: New supported languages
> >
> >
> > Anyone know which versions of BIND actually support these character
sets?
> >
> > --
> > Alex Kells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frontier Internet Hostmaster
> > Frontier Internet Services Limited http://www.frontier-internet.ltd.uk
> > Tel: 020 7510 4713 Fax: 020 7531 9930
> > All statements made are subject to Frontier's Terms and
> > Conditions of Business which are available upon request.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Taco Scargo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 22 February 2001 15:16
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: New supported languages
> >
> >
> > Does this mean that these new domain names can also contain
> > characters like
> > # or % or ^ or * ?
> >
> > These are all valid latin-1 characters..... I don't think so, so I would
> > like to have a list of allowed characters. In the past, it was easy,
just
> > 0-9, a-z and - were valid.... but now ....
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Taco
> > -
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "James M. Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Taco Scargo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:47 AM
> > Subject: RE: New supported languages
> >
> >
> > > Taco,
> > >
> > > Goto http://www.unicode.org/charts/
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > James Woods
> > > Product Manager
> > > Tucows Inc.
> > > 416-535-0123 ext. 1491
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Taco Scargo
> > > Sent: February 22, 2001 1:29 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: New supported languages
> > >
> > >
> > > Question: does anyone know of a site where all characterers contained
in
> > > these charactersets are listed ?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Taco
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:46 AM
> > > Subject: OpenSRS Live Reseller Update - 02/21/01
> > >
> > >
> > > > Multilingual domain names - now with 70 languages
> > > > -----------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Full List of Supported Languages:
> > > >
> > > > ·Latin-1
> > > > ·Latin Extended-A
> > > > ·Latin Extended-B
> > > > · Greek
> > > > · Cyrillic
> > > > · Armenian
> > > > · Georgian
> > >
> > >
>
>
