I am sorry if I wasn't clear. The accents are in the company name, and
user details etc. not the domain name for repeat users that login
using a user id and password.
Mike
James Woods wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Accents are considered illegal characters in domain names. Currently you can
> only register domains consisting of (a-z) no accents (0-9) and -.
>
> You may be interested in reading our planned introduction of multilingual
> domain names. The position paper can be found here:
>
> http://www.opensrs.org/multilingual.html
>
> However this current testbed will only include Asian languages. Further
> Latin based extensions will not be implemented by the Verisign Registry
> until the new year.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> James M. Woods
> Product Manager
> Tucows Inc.
> 416-535-0123 ext. 1491
> www.opensrs.org
> www.tucows.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Mike Leddy
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 9:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Braslink - Miami; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Problems with accents
>
> We have recently installed opensrs-client v2.2 and the system
> is going 'live' for our clients tommorrow. We noticed the
> following problem when testing...
>
> If a repeat user uses the registration system (reg_system.cgi)
> and logs in with his id and password, his registration information
> (company, address etc) which is retrieved from the opensrs
> server is not displayed correctly - Any accents in the text
> apparently are shown in raw UTF-8 in the text edit fields.
>
> eg. "pro-ação" is shown as "pro-a磯"
>
> The information is correct on the opensrs server (a whois query
> confirms this) so the problem is in decoding the info sent by the
> server.
>
> Below is the output from verify_install.cgi . Please note that I
> upgraded XML::Parser to 2.29 in the hope that it would make
> some difference. Unfortunately it did not.
>
> Is this a known problem ?
> Is there already a fix ?
> Do you need any more information from me ?
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mike Leddy
> Systems Administrator
> Braslink, Miami
>
> PS. Current software config:
>
> Software Requirement Tests
> Checking for
> Digest::MD5
> OK (version 2.09)
> Checking for Crypt::DES
> OK
> Checking for
> Crypt::Blowfish
> Not found: Can't locate Crypt/Blowfish.pm in @INC
> (@INC contains:
> /var/www/opensrs-client/lib
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 .) at (eval 8) line 3. !
> Checking for Crypt::CBC
> OK (version 1.25)
> Checking for
> XML::Parser
> OK (version 2.29)
