Hi Bob, I think that what you are encountering are Browser/OS/IME incompatibilities and setting errors. I've been using IE 5.5 with IME running on an English version of win98se and was able to convert all the scenarios you mentioned to their correct and "round tripable" equivalents. Another thing to be mindful of is the encoding type of your browser just before you attempt to encode said domain. In your case make sure that it is set to GB2312. I can't wait until the Registry rolls to a UTF-8 format. It will make all our lives a lot easier. For now all we can do is work this through together. We also have to remember that this is a "testbed" ;) Cheers, James M. Woods Product Manager Tucows Inc. 416-535-0123 ext. 1491 www.opensrs.org www.tucows.com -----Original Message----- From: Merlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 9:52 PM To: James Woods; opensrs-dev Subject: MLDN. Re:the saga of Error: gb2312: Forbidden Char: 0097. is it IE? well, there's an interesting thing. You are no doubt aware of the struggle going on here to find out why some - but not all - attempts at Chinese domain names were failing. To IE or not to IE? This is now the question. In Internet explorer 5.5 SP1, with all IME's appropriate installed. Running on Windows Me. or - running on Windows 98 SE, RACE encoding persistently FAILS, with one or more errors like this Error: gb2312: Forbidden Char: 0097 In Netscape Communicator 4.73, .... NO ERRORS at all. Nothing, nada, zip. RACE performs FLAWLESSLY....... running on Windows Me. hmmmmm. me thinks Microsoft doth stuff in extra characters somewhere/ yes/no/maybe well, for my money's worth. stick with Netscape will be the advice to clients if they encounter problems. Sorry about the rash of email, but this is a problem I'm trying to solve - and everyone is silent on the subject!!! Just hope my messages may help someone out, and in turn - help me out. cheers Bob
