Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?)
Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Mon, 11 March 1996 03:17 UTC
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Subject: Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?)
To: Peter Paul Sint <sint@oeaw.ac.at>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 11:39:39 JST
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> >> While uppercase mapping is culturally sensitive, can we not make a > >> culturally independent 'character matching' algorithm that is good > >> enough for directory services. > >Theoretically, it is a union of all the matching rules of all > >the culture. But, in practice, it is hard especially because > >the expected degree of matching differs service by service. It's a union. OK? > German has a lower case letter > (looks like a beta Of course. > You would never write umlaut A as an A. (only aliens do so - and software). Of course. > The back transformation is not unique! Of course. But, it is not a problem if, with some internationalized non-strict directory service, a pattern of umlaut 'A' matches both 'a', 'A', umlaut 'a', umlaut 'A', 'ae' and 'AE'. Masataka Ohta
- 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?) Alexander Dupuy
- Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?) Keld J|rn Simonsen
- Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?) Masataka Ohta
- Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?) Alexander Dupuy
- Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?) Larry Masinter
- Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?) Larry Masinter
- Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?) Masataka Ohta
- Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?) Patrik Faltstrom
- Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?) Peter Paul Sint
- Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?) Masataka Ohta