Re: IDN's with any ASCII character

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.idn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Edmon Chung" <[email protected]> writes:

> Given an input "this&that.com" the output for ToASCII MUST NOT be
> "xn--this&that-.com"
>
> And we have come across implementations that mis-convert it to
> "xn--this&that-.com"

As far as I can tell, this is simply a bug in the implementation, not
in the specification.

> Also, while ToASCII should fail in this case,

It depends.  If the UseSTD3ASCIIRules flag is set, it should fail.
Otherwise, it shouldn't.
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