Subject: Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution

From: Dan Oscarsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:02:16 +0200 (MEST)

>> ACE: to work as in IDNA the name must be nameprepped before encoded
>>      using ACE.
>> UTF-8:  need only be normalised.
>
>Why even normalize it?  If you intend to require DNS servers to perform
>Unicode case-folding in order to perform the lookup, then why not have
>them perform normalization as well?
>

If all UCS text is normalised (and it is quite easy to do this on input),
the software to handle UCS/UTF-8 gets much simpler.

   Dan