On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:44 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Wednesday 2007-10-03 at 03:32 -0700, Martin Mielke wrote: > > > interesting... I can access the site on Firefox 2.x in OpenSuSE 10.2 but I > > get other codes back: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> host www.ñandú.cl > > Host www.\195\177and\195\186.cl not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> echo $LANG > > en_US.UTF-8 > > > > ...is UTF-8 buggy? :o) > > It seems the codes depend on the lang setting. I also get the same as you > with en_US.UTF-8. > > > Anyway, as for your question... I don't thing host or ping or dig are > > buggy; they just don't know how to handle these international > > characters, I guess... > > But somehow it does know? I mean, it tries to translate to escapes. I > think it should work, anyhow.
I think the answer is linked to by the Chilean site: "It should be noted that, even though some programs used in the Internet, in particular some browsers, already implement IDN and effect this conversion automatically, others still do not." See <http://www.nic.cl/CL-IDN-policy.html> and on Suse 10.2, when I use the RFC3490-specified encoding, it works: $ host www.xn--and-6ma2c.cl www.xn--and-6ma2c.cl has address 200.1.123.3 So I don't think there's a bug, just patience until new versions come along. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
