RE: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?

[Martin J. Duerst]

At 00/12/04 10:42 -0800, Christian Huitema wrote:
>So, at a minimum, we need an IETF
>specification on how to detect that a domain name part is using a non ascii
>encoding, so that DNS servers don't get lost.

Why not just use UTF-8? It is an encoding of the UCS (aka
Unicode/ISO 10646), the encoding is fully compatible with
ASCII (all 7-bit bytes are ASCII and only ASCII), and it
is IETF policy (RFC 2277).

Regards,   Martin.