To be clear (I rushed through my original response)....
I was simply trying to draw a line between the behaviour of the classic
client/server whois model that RFC's like 954 describe...
What you do on the presentation layer (ie - within your own client, in
this case a web interface) is largely up to you. As long as you don't
have a client that rely's on you for RFC compliant data, you can do
translations to whatever character set most suits your needs...
Sorry for the lack of clarity on that first post...
-rwr
"There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an
idiot."
- Steven Wright
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev-list@opensrs.org
> [mailto:owner-dev-list@opensrs.org] On Behalf Of Ross Wm. Rader
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:21 AM
> To: 'Charles Daminato'; concept@conceptonline.hu; dev-list@opensrs.org
> Subject: RE: WHOIS characters
>
>
> Do us all a favor and read through the relevant RFC's...this
> is a great example that illustrates what a wonderful idea IDN
> is, it has the potential to break a whole bunch of things if
> not appropriately implemented. Whois requires an ASCII
> response to an ASCII query at this point...
>
>
>
> -rwr
>
>
>
>
> "There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the
> shore like an idiot."
> - Steven Wright
>
> Please review our ICANN Reform Proposal: http://www.byte.org/heathrow
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-dev-list@opensrs.org
> > [mailto:owner-dev-list@opensrs.org] On Behalf Of Charles Daminato
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 10:43 AM
> > To: concept@conceptonline.hu; dev-list@opensrs.org
> > Subject: RE: WHOIS characters
> >
> >
> > Theoretically any character can be used, but typical whois
> > output will only show 7-bit ASCII since most clients only
> > support that (some web based ones may be different).
> >
> > But we strongly suggest, for compatability and "non-breakage"
> > that you stick to 7-bit ASCII only for now :)
> >
> > Charles Daminato
> > OpenSRS Product Manager
> > Tucows Inc. - chuck@tucows.com
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-dev-list@opensrs.org
> > [mailto:owner-dev-list@opensrs.org]On
> > > Behalf Of Csongor
> > Fagyal
> > > Sent: August 1, 2002 5:44 PM
> > > To: dev-list@opensrs.org
> > > Subject: WHOIS characters
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Could anyone tell me what kind of characters can I insert into the
> > > WHOIS (meaning, say, first name and last name of
> contacts)? Is only
> > > standard 7-bit ASCII allowed, or can I use 8-bit ASCII as
> > well? Maybe
> > > some ISO-8859-x or UTF8 magic? Basically all of our clients are
> > > Hungarians, and we would like to change our client code so
> > that we get
> > > the characters displayed by/present in the WHOIS as close to the
> > > characters our clients use - and mean - as possible.
> > >
> > > If only 7-bit ASCII is OK, do you think that encoded
> > characters (such
> > > as
> > > ő) could be used? (Well, I know that is possible, but is that
> > > recommended?)
> > >
> > > Thanks for your feedback!
> > >
> > > - Csongor
> > >
> >
>
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