Search Again: Re: Problem with special characters From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 Time: 4:53:30 pm At 7:02 PM -0400 2/27/01, jcgalvez@MegaLink.com wrote: >Dear team, > >As today I found out that DNS expert 1.6 is not compatible with the newest >character sets > >it won't accept characters like >a.com >n.com I presume those were meant to have accents over them, or some such. The letters posted there work just fine. >and I did not tryed them on quickdns yet. > >Any news? No standard has yet been established by IETF for international domain names. For further info see: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idn-charter.html The companies that are now allowing registration using these characters are doing so to allow for reservation of international domain names. The names thus registered don't appear anywhere in the domain name system - they're just reserved. VeriSign (owner of Network Solutions) is currently hosting a Multilingual Domain Names Testbed. For more information on this testbed see: http://www.verisign-grs.com/ Basically, the approach they're taking is to use the ACE method to encode UTF formatted domain names into ASCII format. This will allow current DNS servers to support the multilingual domain names without any modification, but the encoding from UTF to ACE must take place on the client, either at application or OS level. We are closely following the progress regarding International DNS and we plan to support whichever method becomes a standard. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: Problem with special characters by jcgalvez@MegaLink.com on Feb 27, 2001 at 3:05:18 pm Re: Problem with special characters by Men & Mice Support on Feb 27, 2001 at 4:53:30 pm