[54471] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: COM/NET informational message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Lewis)
Fri Jan 3 13:46:36 2003
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301031817110.18745-100000@www.everquick.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 13:44:53 -0500
To: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Edward Lewis <edlewis@arin.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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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