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Internationalized Domain Names Coming Soon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the untypable dept.

rduke15 writes "You think you know how to parse a domain name for validity? Well, in case you haven't noticed, things are getting tougher as registrars keep adopting IDN (Internationalized Domain Names), which uses a weird encoding named Punycode to enable accented characters in domain names. The Register reports about Switzerland, Germany and Austria's joint move to enable IDN. See the overview in English from Switch. But I guess it would be difficult to talk about this on /., since it does not even support basic Latin-1 ... :-)"

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  1. Re:FINALLY! by DoorFrame · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wait, huh? How was your second point linked to your first point?

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  2. I for one... by corebreech · · Score: 2, Redundant

    ...most certainly do not welcome our new Unicode-munging overlords.

    I don't care what the issues are. I have had it up to HERE with charset issues! ENOUGH ALREADY!

    If you can't do it using UTF-8, don't do it at all!

    Dammit.

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