Re: [tor-relays] ContactInfo Information Sharing Specification Version 1 released

[Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 9:08 PM Ralph Seichter <ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * nusenu:
>
> > https://github.com/nusenu/ContactInfo-Information-Sharing-Specification
> > This is an effort that started in 2017 as you can see on github.
>
> In section "Defined fields" you write:
>
>   Non-ASCII characters are not supported.
>
> I'm not sure if this applies only to keys or also to values? With the
> availability of IDN (https://unicode.org/faq/idn.html) in email
> addresses, supporting only US-ASCII values is too limited.

I'd suggest that we should allow UTF-8 for values, at least.  It looks
like we're standardizing on UTF-8 as our character encoding for
directory documents in Proposal 285.

cheers,
-- 
Nick
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