there is no comments in the code why it was enforced for .DE
but it seems it working
with tweaking in ra_de and RM
whois "-C ISO-8859-1 -T dn devtestascii1.de"@whois.test.denic.de
I am checking IDN names
but
if they will send data in UTF-8 we will not try to correct it or verify it
if it would fail because of invalid contact characters - it is RSP problem
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, James M Woods wrote:
> Hi Gordon,
>
> We're looking into this in hopes of being able to support it. I'll know
> later today how trivial a matter it is and give you line of sight as to
> if/when we could fully support it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
>
> On 10/22/04 3:27 AM, "Gordon Hudson" <gordon@hostroute.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > Can I make a formal request for umlauts to be permitted in the API
> > for address fields in .de domains?
> >
> > Its necessary to have umlauts on place names like Munchen and Munster.
> > German customers expect to be able to put them in and DENIC allow
> > them, it seems to be a Tucows end problem.
> >
> > Not allowing umlauts just makes us look silly.
> >
> > Or maybe there is a way round this that I am not seeing?
> >
> > (For those who don;t know an umlaut is the two dots you sometimes get above
> > the letter u or o in German).
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Gordon Hudson
> > Hostroute.com Ltd
> > www.hostroute.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> James M Woods
> Product Manager -TLDs
> Tucows Inc.
> 416 538 5453
>
>
>
>
-- E.Pirogov OpenSRS Developer
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