Re: Japanese text in domain names

From: Don Kirkman (spambuster_at_covad.net)
Date: 11/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:31:38 -0800

It seems to me I heard somewhere that ????????? wrote in article
<Rnbld.25035$KJ6.22580@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>:

>Don Kirkman wrote:
>>>If you are in some sort of beta, it must be for 7.60
>>>And if so, and IDN's dont work you may as well report the bug. (thats
>>>what betas are for and all)

>> It's not a bug if it involves non-standard IDN stuff. Opera tries much
>> harder than MS to only accommodate standards.

>Yes opera does do a better job with standards, or so Ive read.
>Those links were pretty stock IDN though, so if they dont resolve for
>you its probably a bug. A tcpdump on udp port 53 can show which
>name its trying to resolve,
>For: it should try:
>www.$BBgNO(B.com www.xn--tfr35m.com
>$B5;=Q(B.com xn--2qux55f.com
>$BKL5~BgU\(B.cn xn--1lq90ic7f1rc.cn
>$B3ZE7;T>l(B.net xn--rls1vl0j3no.net

>I tried them all again in my rusty old mozilla and they all resolve.
>(only the .cn one has a meaningful website behind it though)

>Unless you realy could care less about the feature, I'd say report the
>bug.

Actually I could NOT care less.

[. . .]

>> ISTM your point is about accommodating *potential* or *future* users,
>> not the millions that are out there right now.

>Any current user who is willing to update his client software can take
>advantange of such features. For example, having the internet
>work seamlessly in his own language in not inconsiderable, imo.

QED 

-- 
Don
Old age is when you start saying "I wish I knew now what I knew then."