Re: DeNIC changed ß to a valid character for domainnames

[Simon Josefsson]

Thomas Jacob <address@hidden> writes:

> I am still trying to understand the major ideas behind the revamped
> IDNA 2008 but so far haven't found the time to wade through the RFCs,
> you wouldn't happen to have a link handy to some kind of article
> explaining the major differences between IDN A2003 and 2008?

Appendix A of RFC 5891 list the changes, but doesn't do a good job of
explaining them.  Alas I haven't seen anything useful except the RFC
themselves, for IDNA2008.

> But you're right of course that this is trivial to fix with a little
> wrapper for each front end application, and that is probably the
> way to go at the moment.

Yes.

/Simon