[Patch] internatinal domain names for email addresses

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:39:57AM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 06:19:16 +0100, Thomas Kuehne said:
> 
> > The attached patch against gnupg-1.4.0 enables internatinal domain names
> >   in the UID generation.
> 
> Using rfc822 mailbox format in the user IDs is merely a suggestion and
> not required.  It is out of GnuPG's scope to handle this.  A frontend
> might do so but GnuPG won't - mainly for reasons of complexity.

Plus, the user ID string is already UTF8.  Is there any need to encode
it further in punycode?

David