Warren Togami wrote: > On 11/03/2009 09:50 PM, Sidney Markowitz wrote: >> Warren Togami wrote, On 4/11/09 3:27 PM: >>> It seems clear that we will need to flatten/encode any URI domain to >>> punycode for URIBL lookups. >> >> I agree with that -- if something has non-ASCII characters then >> punycode is the canonical form to use to look it up. >> >>> The unclear part is if we will need to decode URI's prior to >>> punycode encoding. I suspect we will be forced to decode. >> >> I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but the big issue that I see is >> how to determine that a string is a URL (where it starts and where it >> stops) that needs to be encoded to punycode. Is that what you are >> talking about? The rule of thumb that I used when working on code to >> extract URLs from plain text is that is some common MUA hot links it, >> then we want to treat it as a URL. Perhaps the answer is to wait >> until MUAs support these URLs and then follow that rule of thumb. >> >> -- sidney > > http://日本語.テスト/ > > Did your MUA turn that into a clickable link? > > Thunderbird yes > Evolution no > GMail yes > Squirrelmail no > Roundcubemail no
knode yes. /Per Jessen, Zürich
