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Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Mon, 29 November 2010 16:09 UTC

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On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
>
> there exist rules, much earlier than 1123, about "-" as the initial, or
> terminal, byte in a sequence of bytes, and about sequences of two or more
> instances of "-" where neither byte is the initial, or terminal, byte in a
> sequence of bytes.

There has never been a restriction on consecutive hyphens, otherwise they
would not have been usable in IDN A-labels.

Tony.
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