On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 12:36:21AM +0300, D?vis Mos?ns wrote:
> 2014-06-06 0:08 GMT+03:00 Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-us...@dukhovni.org>:
>
> >
> > That's fine, I don't want to rehash it either, but Postfix interfaces
> > need to be usable by Postfix users. So Postfix will have to make up
> > for deficits in the RFCs.
>
>
> Exactly, but you look at it from English person's point of view. Latin
> alphabet is native for you, but for others they would rather prefer to use
> their own alphabets. I know I would rather have names/domains in Unicode
> for files/database rather than having to deal with Punnycode. Basically
> using Punnycode forces everyone to use converters, because I can't convert
> that in my head (to and back).
Not too many people in Russia read Hebrew (right to left) or can
even cut and paste it reliably into a left to right context.
> I guess the only way to please everyone would be - it should be
> configurable, which format it's stored Unicode or Punnycode.
Tower of Babel is all fine and good user<->user and user<->MUA,
but it is a terrible interface for postmaster<->MTA. The wire
formats in EAI are in error, and I want as little to do with them
as possible, in particular I think that postmaster<->MTA must be
an a-label interface.
--
Viktor.
