> Again, they are not forbidden. They can be used as input. What is not clear
> (and controversial here) is whether you will ever get them back or not when
> you decode the ACE. Some ACE preserve case. But normalization can't be
> undone, so as you said, the name service cannot return them. We won't get
> about adding a new RR for that here, but while I am for preserving case but
> may live without it (after all, DNS names are not pretty, if I want
> prettiness I'll use a layer above it), Roozbeh's comments about Arabic names
> becoming different to their reader because of spontaneous joining of glyphs
> certainly may spark some thinking.
>
> YA
>
We have the same problem in English today.
Say I had a store called "To Get Her Gifts". Smashing the
word together to get a domain name might not be what you
what, e.g. togethergifts.com. Especially if next door is
"Together Gifts".
There are also plenty of cases where a made up word in one
language turns out to be a real word in a different language.
You need to think before you register / create a domain name,
not just run on automatic pilot.
Mark
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