On 22/04/15 21:22, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 07:44:07PM +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > >> Lots of other stuff to think about. > > Question for the Exim team. It seems you have code for converting > UTF-8 localparts to ASCII. What encoding do you use for that?
"xn--" <punycode> (i.e. like a domain element) > I > am not aware of anything in EAI that standardises such an encoding. Nor me. > It seems that Microsoft has an ad-hoc ASCII encoding for UTF-8 > localparts, are you using the same one? They use "xl--" followed > by the Punycode encoding of the localpart. > > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn600431.aspx > > Are we heading towards a de-facto standard here? Or just multiple > ad-hoc approaches. What's the advantage of "xl--" over "xn--" ? Not needing to know the context, that it is a localpart rather than a domain, when doing a decode? It would not be hard to change this aspect of the Exim implementation. -- Cheers, Jeremy -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
