On Wed, March 14, 2007 6:22 am, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > Richard Lynch wrote: >> I wonder if the changes that allow for Interntional domain names, >> with >> various Unicode characters I don't even know how to get out of my >> keyboard, *ALSO* made _ suddenly be legal... >> >> Just a hypothesis. >> >> I gotta say that Apache being current on RFCs and IE being broken >> seems a lot more likely to this naive reader... :-) >> >> And you have to admit that if various characters that my keyboard >> can't even produce are valid URL characters, then outlawing '_' is >> kinda bogus... >> > You're probably talking about IDNA (called iDNS before). > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
Yes. And while _ is ASCII and therefore should not have IDNA applied to it, it would not shock me to find out that somebody messed up and that is what happens to it... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
