Re: UTF-5 specification

From: Joerg Knappen (KNAPPEN@ALPHA.NTP.SPRINGER.DE)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 11:30:23 EST


Doug Ewell schrieb:

> Instead, the authors might wish to expand on the intended use of UTF-5
> for domain names and e-mail addresses, including a list of characters
> that should be considered "delimiters" for creating these compound-UTF-5
> hybrid strings. For example, '/' and ':' would be appropriate delimiters
> as well as '@' and '.'.

Add at least the following delimiters (there may be more):

'%', '!', '(', ')', '<', '>'

Probably adding ',' to the delimiters is a good idea, too.

And, "[" and "]" are even more special, like in user@[123.45.67.89]
... probably a true RFC expert is needed to sort all things out.

--J"org Knappen



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