"dk_sz" <dk_sz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4457eaaa$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> AFAIK some time ago it became an official standard
> to have domain names containing e.g. the Danish æ å ø ?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_names
Indy does not currently support IDNA. That is currently under discussion by
Indy's developers. The biggest problem with supporting IDNA in Indy is that
IDNA requires Unicode, which Indy (and the bulk of the VCL in general) does
not support.
> The problem is (for me) that it would be faster if I could
> assume ASCII only.
Then do so. IDNA is only for converting Unicode-based hostnames into ASCII
representations when preforming DNS queries. If you are trying to compare
two Unicode URLs, then just compare them directly. You don't need IDNA for
that.
Gambit
