Re: Punycode questions

2014-09-29 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Tony Finch wrote: >Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> To be more specific and concrete about it, here is a small >> example Perl program I wrote: >> >>ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/pub/punybug.pl >> >> When *I* run this, it prints out several "Invalid punycode!" >> errors. > >I think

Re: Punycode questions

2014-09-29 Thread Tony Finch
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In a nutshell, I'd just like to know whether or not Punycode > encoded strings may ever validly contain either (a) leading > periods or else (b) two consecutive periods. Would any strings > that contain either of those things be considered to be "valid" > Punycode e

Punycode questions

2014-09-28 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I hope this post won't be considered too far off topic. I've already sent this same question off to the guy who is the current maintainer of the Net::IDN::Punycode Perl module, but while I'm still impatiently awaiting his response I'm thinking that maybe folks here could enlighten me. In a nutsh