Thanks for that, I was *totally* misunderstanding the concept of the MLDs!
So from what I understand now, in order for these domains to work, everyone
using the internet will have to upgrade their browsers and mail clients to
be able to deal with the translation?
How likely is that to happen???
Otherwise, the domains will only partially work? ie if I have an old mail
client, it wouldn't be able to translate the multilingual domain name, and
the mail wouldn't reach it's destination...
Or have I misunderstood again?
--
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
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-----Original Message-----
From: Csongor Fagyal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 22 February 2001 19:58
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: New supported languages
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
> > >
> > >
>
>
