Hello Ronald, > On 2 Nov 2019, at 21:55, Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry if I am interrupting any ongoing discussion, but I just > have a quick and simple question... > > Is it permitted to have internationalized domain names appear > within the database? >
Currently the RIPE database supports the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) character set only. There was previous discussion in April - May 2015 to support UTF-8: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2015-April/004516.html https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2015-May/004542.html The proposal was to allow UTF-8 in free-text attributes, except for primary keys. > By that I really mean to ask if it is permissible to have there > appear in the data base IDNs which are written in their UTF-8 > encoded forms, rather than, say, in punycode? > The RIPE database only contains reverse domain objects (i.e. to register reverse delegations). > I have found at least one specific case where an IDN does appear > in the data base as a UTF-8 encoded string, but since I had > never seen that before, I just wanted to know if that was an > anomalous mistake or if it was consider normal, acceptable, > and routine. > Please let me know in which object you found this. The DB team spent some effort recently improving (non-) Latin-1 character handling (in updates and queries), there shouldn't be any non Latin-1 characters remaining. Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC
