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At 9:32 AM +0200 6/5/00, Johan Solve wrote:
Re: Do 8-bit domains work with QDNS?
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Monday, June 5, 2000
Time: 11:39:23 am
>.nu domains are offering 8-bit domain names (domain names that
>contain extended characters). While you can discuss the sanity of
>this idea, I would like to know if QDNS supports extended characters
>in domain names?
This is a difficult issue, because of the differences in character
codes. All of the DNS querying and serving tools that predate the .nu
effort use the ASCII 7-bit character set, which is all that the major
operating systems can agree on. Anything beyond character 127 means
using Unicode, the only one of the ISO "standard" character sets that
is designed to work universally; OS support for Unicode is still
spotty.
QuickDNS Pro Admin will accept extended characters, but the server
will serve them using the US Macintosh character codes. Thus they
might as well be gibberish. I suppose if used as a secondary server
for a zone whose primary server serves these names correctly, QDNS
*might* also serve them correctly.
DNS Expert will not permit entry of 8-bit or Unicode names, though if
they arrive as part of an answer, they will be displayed using the
system's character set.
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