Posted on August 21, 2009, 8:13 am, by IDN News, under
IDN Technology.
A couple months ago I blogged about EAI Email Address Internationalization/Internationalized Email Addresses (EAI/IMA) and felt like blogging again. China’s been very interested in non-ASCII email addresses for some time, and is working hard to adopt the EAI standard. I’ve heard a target of November 2009 for that standard. http://www.china.org.cn/china/sci_tech/2008-09/27/content_16544162.htm briefly addresses EAI. Local Oversimplification […]
Posted on December 18, 2008, 7:39 am, by IDN News, under
Blogs.
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI’s) are a new take on the old URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), which through RFC 3986 restricted domain names to a subset of ASCII characters – mainly lower and upper case letters, numbers, and some punctuation. IRI’s were forecasted many years ago by Martin Dürst and Michel Suignard, and formalized in RFC […]
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IDN spoofing,
IRI,
Nameprep,
Punycode,
RFC 3986,
RFC 3987,
Stringprep,
Unicode domains,
Unicode spoofing,
URI,
UTF-8,
xn--
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Posted on September 19, 2008, 4:41 am, by IDN News, under
Exclusive.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published three crucial documents for the standardisation of email address headers that include symbols outside the ASCII character set. This means that soon you’ll be able to use Chinese characters, French accents, and German umlauts in email addresses as well as just in the body of the message. […]
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ß,
CNIC,
DeNIC,
IDN e-mail,
IDN.de,
RFC 5335,
RFC 5336,
RFC3490,
RFC5337,
TWNIC,
Unicode domains,
Unicode e-mail,
UTF-8
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Posted on March 20, 2008, 3:00 pm, by Jason, under
Blogs.
The internet is an amazing tool. It can bring together people from all walks of life, from anywhere on the planet, regardless of culture, gender, sexual orientation or physical condition. We can read about world events moments after they occur, and we can read about someone’s personal life or opinions at our leisure. […]