Re: Figuring out what can be displayed
"Eric A. Hall" <[email protected]>
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on 9/11/2002 5:12 AM Erik Nordmark wrote: > 3) ACE labels obtained from domain name slots SHOULD be hidden from > users when it is known that the environment can handle the non-ACE > form, except when the ACE form is explicitly requested. This still has the potential to cause non-trivial breakage. Message-ID, search, etc. > When it is not known whether the environment can handle the non-ACE > form, the application MAY use the non-ACE form (which might fail e.g. > by not being displayed propertly) or it MAY instead use the ACE form > (which will look unintelligle to the user). -- My position remains that the Unicode form MUST NOT be rendered unless and until the governing specification for the affected protocol and/or service explicitly allows it and describes how such data is to be handled. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/