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Re: COM/NET informational message
- From: Edward Lewis
- Date: Fri Jan 03 13:48:27 2003
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.
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...
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.
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