On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, John W. Baxter wrote: > Philip, you'll also be retired before the major annoyance that will be > caused by opening up domain names to non-ASCII (which seems to be > steamrollering ahead). Good timing.
Exim has for some time supported UTF-8 domain names, experimentally. However, it doesn't support the weird encodings that have been proposed - I haven't kept up with the debate, so I don't know what has finally been agreed. But I've recently grown very skeptical about this whole issue if the new arrangement is going to allow registration of names like amazon.com where the o in amazon is not an oh, but an omicron, which looks the same as an oh when displayed. That really will be the largest can of worms ever. We have enough trouble with o/0/O 1/l etc. already. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
