Re: IDN in fred? Howto

Thank you Mariano for reminding us on the uni/puny-code things. Yes, fred(client) can create_domain xn--mund-4na.fo and more or less anything else, given 'allow_idn = true' in /etc/fred/server.conf, all over EPP, and it goes into the zone file without problems. Even 'ámund.fo <http://xn--mund-4na.fo>' works as expected in both whois interfaces. This is great news around here. :-) Our expectation was that it would be possible to create domain 'ámund.fo <http://xn--mund-4na.fo>', but this just returns a 'bad format of fqdn domain'. I guess we will have to adjust our expectations, and just live with the xn-*.fo domains in lists and such. This leaves us with the original request which is that we just wanted to accept a few non-ASCII chars, not the whole UTF8 chebang thing. I guess we would need to filter user input somehow allowing for a few extra chars. Is this there currently a solution for this ? And now for something completely different, but related - which might be considered a bug: It seems that in order to register a idn name the registrar has to be a 'system registrar'. Here is what we get, while being a 'non-system registrar' trying to create the domain xn-1ca0d.fo Now we changed the status of the registrar to 'system registrar' and tried again: We would expect that others than 'system registrars' should be able to register idn names, right ? Btw: /etc/fred/server.conf contains the following two changed idn and epp settings (as we are still working on getting epp charging to work, but that's for another day )