On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:52:39AM +0300, Hari Kurup wrote: > They say Firefox 1.0.1 is out. > > Among the "What's New" is that International Domain Names are now > displayed as punycode. > > Now what is punycode? Just asking.
Check out RFC 3492 (eg here http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3492.html) but in short it uniquely and reversibly transforms a Unicode string into an ASCII string. The idea is to represent things like Chineese domains et al in a way the rest of us can type ;-) etc. -- patrick _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
