[dns-operations] Who is xn--j1amh.? Well, the general problem...

Ray Bellis Ray.Bellis at nominet.org.uk
Wed Mar 20 14:19:06 UTC 2013


On 20 Mar 2013, at 13:35, Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap at NLnetLabs.nl> wrote:

> Whatalways cracks me up on this page is that all IDNs are sorted under the
> X (because of XNN- I assume).

Does a sensible sorting order for characters from different character sets even exist?

The only one I can think of is by strict code point value, but then that would produce incorrect results for those languages whose own code points aren't in lexical order.

Ray





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