Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:44 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2007-10-03 at 03:32 -0700, Martin Mielke wrote:

interesting... I can access the site on Firefox 2.x in OpenSuSE 10.2 but I get other codes back:

martin@styx:~> host www.ñandú.cl
Host www.\195\177and\195\186.cl not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

martin@styx:~> echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

...is UTF-8 buggy? :o)

It seems the codes depend on the lang setting. I also get the same as you
with en_US.UTF-8.

Anyway, as for your question... I don't thing host or ping or dig are
buggy; they just don't know how to handle these international
characters, I guess...

But somehow it does know? I mean, it tries to translate to escapes. I
think it should work, anyhow.

I think the answer is linked to by the Chilean site:

"It should be noted that, even though some programs used in the
Internet, in particular some browsers, already implement IDN and effect
this conversion automatically, others still do not."

See <http://www.nic.cl/CL-IDN-policy.html> and on Suse 10.2, when I use
the RFC3490-specified encoding, it works:

$ host www.xn--and-6ma2c.cl
www.xn--and-6ma2c.cl has address 200.1.123.3

So I don't think there's a bug, just patience until new versions come
along.

Cheers, Dave
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