To:
Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
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Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>, ietf-provreg@cafax.se
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Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Date:
Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:29:50 +0200
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Re: Sending the original (Unicode) domain name as well as the ACE?
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 12:19:50AM -0700, Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com> wrote a message of 24 lines which said: > ace is an encoding form. so is utf-8. so is utf-16. all of them are > unicode. Big difference: you can go from UTF-8 to UTF-16 (and back) without losing information. You CANNOT go from UTF-8 (or 16) to ACE without losing information (because of nameprep). > so ace is just as much "original (Unicode)" as utf-8 or utf-16. I slightly disagree. > There is no informational benefit in having the string stored in two > different encodings. I do not regard ACE as an encoding of Unicode.