Quoting Arcane Jill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Do we have Unicode DNS yet? > > Yup. You can put Chinese letters in domain names now. You do it like this: > (1) Convert to NFC > (2) Encode in UTF-8 > (3) Replace all reserved characters (space, %, etc.) with the three > character string "%hh" (where hh is hex for the substituted character) > (4) Now similarly replace all bytes > 0x7F with the three-character > string "%hh" (where hh is hex for the substituted character)
I know that this is done with Internationalised URIs, but does this work in the domain portion as well? I thought the DNS rules still prohibited it, although the URI rules don't - the inverse to how URIs are case-sensitive but the DNS portion isn't treated as such when dereferencing. Eventually, you're left with only one choice - to advise the user: > "Never click on a hyperlink. Instead, always type in the URL by hand". > Trouble is, such advice is more trouble than it's worth, and would kill > the fluidity of the internet. Or click on whatever hyperlinks you like, but have the hatches battened down and don't assume you are where you appear to be. I like to summarise security advice thusly: "if you trust my advice on security you're starting with completely the wrong attitude" :) -- Jon Hanna | Toys and books <http://www.hackcraft.net/> | for hospitals: | <http://santa.boards.ie>
