Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?)

> JIS might
> have separate codes for single and double-wide codes yet want to treat
> them equivalent for matching.

JIS does not.

> While uppercase mapping is culturally sensitive, can we not make a
> culturally independent 'character matching' algorithm that is good
> enough for directory services.

Theoretically, it is a union of all the matching rules of all
the culture. But, in practice, it is hard especially because
the expected degree of matching differs service by service.

						Masataka Ohta

Received on Thursday, 7 March 1996 19:54:17 UTC