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Re: DeNIC changed ß to a valid character for domainnames
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: DeNIC changed ß to a valid character for domainnames |
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Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:47:18 +0200 |
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Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann <address@hidden> writes:
> I checked libidn and it return ss for ß for .de-domains, but this
> behavior changed yesterday. My understanding of libidn is to small to
> send a patch, sorry for that.
IDNA2003 applications will forever translate ß into ss, it is only newer
applications (IDNA2008) that will be able to handle ß in the new way.
What is needed is to implement IDNA2008 in Libidn. There are some
discussions about this on the help-libidn mailing list (cc'd) right now.
/Simon
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