"Multi lingual" domains

[bill]

> 
> 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
> 

	Er... no.  DNS is 8bit clean and lable agnostic. (*)
	
	* - modulo early patches (bind8) to try and prevent
	stack smashing.

--bill