"Multi lingual" domains

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

bill <bmanning at karoshi.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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. (*)

Sorry, but the stuff you *put in dns* is restricted to a-z 0-9 '-' ( as far 
as hostnames are defined, which is what most folks uses dns to anyway.)

rfc1123 is what rules here. Anything outside standards *might* work but 
there is no guarantees.  IDN is the way to go.


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