French characters in bind zone

[Sten Carlsen]

IDN compatibility is not perfect in Firefox, it works if you type or
paste the text into the address line. Follow the link generated in the
mail, it does not do any translation.

This means that any website using this kind of domain should take this
into account. You may want to explain that to your customer to help make
their website work and have a happy customer.

Sebastian E. Castro Avila wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:05:55 -0300, Werner Schalk <werner_schalk at gmx.de>  
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a customer who wants me to register a domain name containing  
>> french
>> special characters (e.g. dcorè.net). How do I create a zone file for  
>> such a
>> domain? I created a sample one (which I always use and which always  
>> works)
>> but for these french special characters the zone doesn't work (bind  
>> simply
>> ignores it). Any ideas on how to implement a zone file for such a domain?
>>
>>     
>
> You need IDNA (Internationalized Domain Names for Applications)
>
> Due to restrictions in DNS protocols, the labels are constrained to  
> contain only LDH (Letter-Digit-Hyphen).
> To overcome that, you must convert the zone name using special characters  
> to ACE encoding.
>
> For example, dcorè.net turns into xn--dcor-8oa.net in ACE encoding.
>
> So you configure in your nameserver a zone for "xn-dcor-8oa.net". Any  
> IDN-compliant application will encode the name with special characters  
> into ACE and then, send any query.
>
> If you want to give it a try, visit this
>
> http://www.ñandú.cl or http://www.xn--and-6ma2c.cl  you'll get the same!
>
> By the time being, Safari/Mozilla/Firefox/Opera are IDN-compliant  
> browsers. It was expected that IE7 to support IDN, but I haven't tested it.
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>   
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Werner.
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
>
>   

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Best regards

Sten Carlsen

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