At 18:31 +0000 1/3/03, E.B. Dreger wrote:
UTF-8 is a standard. MS products have used two-octet chars to support Unicode for a long time. Any reason to add yet another encoding?
Sounds like a question to ask of the IETF.
The DNS protocol is not 8-bit safe, much less any implementations of it. This is because ASCII upper case characters are down cased in comparisons. I.e., the following are equivalent label values in DNS: ABCDEF and abcdef and AbCdEf. Each has distinct binary encodings, but DNS comparisons treat them as equal.How about encouraging widespread adoption of EXISTING standards instead of adding more cruft? UTF-8 is standard. Proper DNS implementations are eight-bit safe. People upgraded browsers due to SSL, Year 2000, Javascript...
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