From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 04:09:00 CDT
Has anyone been following the Internationalization of the DNS and can
report here where they are up to? In particular, have they decided how an
email address will look if it is to be sent to fred@site.example, where
"fred" actually contains some Non-ASCII characters?
This is a problem for us when mailing to the moderator of a newsgroup with
a Non-ASCII newsgroup-name. Currently, our draft contains a holding text
which recognizes the problem and has pious expectations that there will
someday be a solution. So I just wanted to know whether or not we are now
in a position to write something more helpful there. I had heard that a
recent IETF meeting had made some concrete decisions in this IDNS area.
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