unicode support in domain names
tsar.peter at gmail.com
tsar.peter at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 21:12:47 UTC 2006
Clueless sweeping comments does not improve your credability.
For us that cares about interoperability and standards :
The question was " support of unicode charsets in domain names" , and
when it comes
to what people usually mean that is "A" records. Hostnames as expressed
in
DNS are restricted to even less then USASCII. ( a-z '-' 0-9 '.' )
case insensitive.
rfc1035 2.3.1 will describe why.
Using "national character sets" in domain names is covered on
application
level, this is described in IDN RFC3490 might be a starting point.
That said, some DNS types accepts 8-bit transparant labels and data.
Still that
doen not mean that a FQDN hostname may uses full unicode.
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