Fwd: "International Domain Names" support in KDE

Dirk Mueller mueller at kde.org
Wed Jan 22 22:13:48 GMT 2003


On Mit, 22 Jan 2003, David Faure wrote:

> Does anyone know which parts of KDE would need to me modified to work
> with the new "International Domain Names" standard from the IETF?

Almost everything. KURL for example doesn't use utf8 encoding, so you cannot 
access any domain that has nonascii characters. 

a nice testcase is www.müller.com. The domain exists and has a webpage, but 
you can't browse it with konqueror. 


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Dirk (received 622 mails today)




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