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
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