Non English Domain names
Stephane Bortzmeyer
bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Wed Nov 18 14:49:28 UTC 2009
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 03:36:56PM +0100,
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote
a message of 25 lines which said:
> If you are talking about IDN (Internationalized Domain Names), domain
> names in Unicode, the way they are specified, they don't require a
> change in the name servers, so BIND can handle them just fine.
BTW, the Wikipedia article seems quite comprehensive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
And, to translate names from Unicode to the ASCII encoding used in
zone files, you can use various command-line tools or a Web one:
http://josefsson.org/idn.php/
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