It appears that Patrik Fältström <[email protected]> said:
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>On 15 Nov 2025, at 4:38, Dave Lawrence wrote:
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>> Marco Davids \(IETF IMAP\) writes:
>>> I'm working on a draft (draft-davids-forsalereg) in which TXT
>>> records play an essential role. To avoid ambiguity I ended up
>>> dedicating an entire section (5.2) to character encoding.
>>
>> Okay, cool.  I think for a new definition like this you can just declare 
>> that the TXT RDATA should be interpreted as a continuous UTF-8 string 
>> without regard to the 255
>octet segment boundaries.  It feels like maybe 5.2 has slightly too many words 
>for accomplishing this, but seems okay enough.
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>No, you should not redefine an existing RRType. Create a new one if you feel 
>that is required.
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>You can specifically "just compare" two series of Unicode strings by looking 
>at the bits, as equivalent of Unicode strings is something completely 
>different.

I hope you meant you cannot just compare them and expect to get a useful result.

>So, just "no". Do not go there.

I still think that a PRECIS profile could be useful in this case.

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