Re: Status of IDN

Hello, it's "almost" full supported :) IDN implementation if Fred (current version on fred.nic.cz) can be divided into several parts: 1) Acceptance of IDN domains in EPP registration process. --------------------------------------------------------- Only reasons why IDN domains are not accepted is that their syntax containing two dashes '--' is not allowed by domain syntax checker. We have updated syntax checker to be configurable by allowIDN attribute. This attribute can be seen in checkHandle functions syntax in domain.h and nsset.h source files. It has default value false, but by setting it to true. Full registration of IDN domains will be available. We thought about propagate this value to configuration file but finally we postponed this solution to future. There is another topic in IDN domain registration process. It is to allow only specified set of characters to be allowed in domain names. This is not handled at all in Fred but we know that for full suport this feature must be implemented. 2) Show/parse correct names in whois (unix and web) --------------------------------------------------- If there are already some domains in registry, they should be displayed and queried in whois naturally. We included libidn library into fred to support 'IDN encoded' <-> 'UTF8' conversion. This means that in web whois you can ask for domain in both forms and domain is correctly displayed in natural form. This can be seen for example on http://www.nic.cz/whois/ where you can query for only IDN domain in .cz háčkyčárky.cz (contains czech characters 'á','č'). Unix whois clients are clever and they do part of this translation themselves. They query first for UTF8 form and if there is false response they try IDN encoded form. So there is no need to do anything on parsing unix whois query. Only result must be properly converted and Fred of course handle this conversion. You can see this by calling 'whois háčkyčárky.cz' (using jwhois version 4.0 on my Fedora desktop). Regards Jaromir bsd píše v Po 02. 03. 2009 v 09:24 +0100: