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Patrick <patrick@gandi.net>
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From:
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Date:
Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:06:32 +0200
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Re: Sending the original (Unicode) domain name as well as the ACE?
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 12:47:56PM +0200,
Patrick <patrick@gandi.net> wrote
a message of 29 lines which said:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:27:19AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer took time to write:
> > > since epp's char set is utf8 i see no reason why a native utf name
> > > cound't be enclosed in <domain:name> insted of the ace name.
>
> I totally agree with Rick's comments.
In theory, yes. In practice, it is probably fair to assume that few
EPP servers will be happy with Unicode. I just tried on LibertyRMS
testbed and I got:
Executing domain create [aèçà .epp]
Code: 2005
Message: Parameter value syntax error
2005:Parameter value syntax error (Value contains invalid character: -1(ã))
It is not a message for a policy violation :-)
> My opinion is that Registry should accept the UTF-8 version and do
> the ACE things by themselves. Of course this is a matter of policy.