On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, David C Lawrence wrote:
> Dan writes:
> > If I look at how I would like things to work, if could be like this:
> >
> > user enters name in application using LOCAL character set.
> > ->
> > application calls routnes like: gethostbyname
> > ->
> > gethostbyname converts form LOCAL character set to
> > normalised (not namepreped) UTF-8 (or other format).
> > it may reject the query if the name contains forbidden characters.
> > and sends the query to DNS server.
>
> How does gethostbyname() know for sure what the character set of its
> argument is?
i guess that gethostbyname need be extended so that one additional
param indicates the local char set.
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