Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?)

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Fri, 08 March 1996 01:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?)
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 96 9:44:29 JST
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> JIS might
> have separate codes for single and double-wide codes yet want to treat
> them equivalent for matching.

JIS does not.

> 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.

						Masataka Ohta