Re: [idn] UTF-8 / RACE

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>]

It's very helpful to have these reports from countries that don't use
Latin-based character sets. The users would benefit tremendously from a
working IDN solution; I hope the IDN WG doesn't ignore their needs.

Sherin Alsoudani writes:
> The response has been very strong from what I know: providers ARE 
> switching to UTF-8; there is a good chance that my ISP will upgrade to
> a UTF-8 compatible software assuming they have not done so already.  I
> believe it is a later version of BIND that is necessary.

Could you ask your ISP for more details about what changes it is making?

The only BIND problem with UTF-8 is the gethostbyname() library, which
rejects 8-bit characters in violation of RFC 2181. Current versions of
BIND support no-check-names in /etc/resolv.conf to fix this behavior.

---Dan