Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > It's called "internationalized domain name for APPLICATIONS". ;) It's > up to the application to interpret the ASCII text as IDNA encoded > FQDNs. As far as I know DNS, SSL's CNAME and OS interfaces etc. always > use ASCII labels. It's an elegant solution. Just the UI part of an > application needs to understand IDNA.
The socket module already decodes to/encodes from IDNA in places (e.g. gethostname()). We need a consistent policy in the stdlib; I would like Martin's advice on this. ---------- nosy: +loewis _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17997> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
