"Multi lingual" domains

[Christian Smith]

In article <c1cr33$h7k$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Mario Caruso <caruso at it.tiscali.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm writing to search an answer for a question that I have since I read=20
> the articles present on=20
> 
> https://www.nunames.nu/Local-Language.cfm
> 
> or=20
> 
> http://www.united-domains.de/umlaut/?SESSID=3D6b0e55930bf62181e34e3b1b45970=a98
> 
> in this pages there are proposal for domains containing
> characters as =E4 or =F6 (extended ascii codes) , my questions are :
> 
> 1) can bind 9.2.x handle those domains ?

Yes.

> 2) are they "legal" characters ?

No.

DNS works in the 7 bit world and clients (web browsers, email 
clients/servers) do the conversion from the extended space to 7bit and 
lookup the ascii encoded domain name.

Both the URLs you linked to above discuss this at least briefly.

-- 
Christian Smith