Do 8-bit domains work with QDNS?

Re: Do 8-bit domains work with QDNS?

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Personally I don't give much for this 8-bit effort, but sooner or=20
later client demand for this "feature" will increase and we can't=20
fight back, at least in the 8-bit part of the world. I'd like to be=20
prepared for this increase in demand, the sooner the better.
.nu domains are particularly popular in Sweden ("nu" is Swedish for=20
"now", and the .se rules have been very restrictive until recently)=20
so this matter is of special interest for us, being a country with at=20
least three extended characters.

Have Men&Mice decided on a strategy for this question, are you=20
working on it, or will you just wait and see, leaving us in the cold?=20
:-)

>At 9:32 AM +0200 6/5/00, Johan Solve wrote:
>>.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=20
>codes. All of the DNS querying and serving tools that predate the=20
>.nu effort use the ASCII 7-bit character set, which is all that the=20
>major operating systems can agree on. Anything beyond character 127=20
>means using Unicode, the only one of the ISO "standard" character=20
>sets that is designed to work universally; OS support for Unicode is=20
>still spotty.
>
>QuickDNS Pro Admin will accept extended characters, but the server=20
>will serve them using the US Macintosh character codes. Thus they=20
>might as well be gibberish. I suppose if used as a secondary server=20
>for a zone whose primary server serves these names correctly, QDNS=20
>*might* also serve them correctly.
>
>DNS Expert will not permit entry of 8-bit or Unicode names, though=20
>if they arrive as part of an answer, they will be displayed using=20
>the system's character set.
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