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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=3><FONT color=#0000ff>Waldo:<BR><BR>Thank you for
your email. With regards:</FONT><BR><BR>Ok, I added support for it to
kdecore. It uses libidn (</FONT><A target=_blank
href="http://josefsson.org/libidn/"><FONT color=#000000
size=3>http://josefsson.org/libidn/</FONT></A><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
color=#000000 size=3>) for the encoding functions. It auto-detects libidn
during runtime and loads it on-demand. First tests indicate that it works just
fine. Are there already actual sites with international domain
names?</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000 size=3><FONT
color=#0000ff>[Krall, Gary] Sample IDNs for .com and .net can be found
at:</FONT> <FONT color=#0000ff><A
href="http://www.verisign-grs.com/idn/howitworks/sample.html">http://www.verisign-grs.com/idn/howitworks/sample.html</A> Note
that these names have been registered and encoded in RACE which as you may have
seen in my earlier email post to this distribution list was the precursor
encoding standard prior to the soon to be release/expected standard of
Punycode.</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000 size=3><FONT
color=#0000ff>As Punycode names are currently not available outside of test
environments because the prefix to the ASCII string has not been defined I
cannot give you an example. For the time being only RACE encoded names
with the ASCII prefix of "bq--" are working.
</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000
size=3><FONT color=#0000ff>Let me give you a good example of this in looking at
the first name on this page.</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000 size=3><FONT
color=#0000ff>The domain name <FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"
size=2>阿诗玛.com</FONT> converts in ASCII to: bq--3cld7c6xoonq.com
. Since all .com and .net names resolve in the second level if you type
into your browser's address bar WITHOUT any support you should be able to
navigate to the page: bq--3cld7c6xoonq.mltbd.com. The issue as
you'll see is that the ASCII string is preserved in the address bar which
clearly is unacceptable for users. The work you and others are doing is
essentially performing this character to ASCII conversion such that DNS can
understand what to do with this.</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000 size=3><FONT
color=#0000ff>Hope this helps.</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000 size=3><FONT
color=#0000ff>Gary.</FONT></DIV>
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