Hello Fredy Fredy Kuenzler wrote: > Fabian Wenk wrote: > > I'm wondering anyway if the umlaut domains in real life will work. > > I'm not (yet) in the technical stuff. But have a look at Switch's > description: > > http://www.switch.ch/id/idn/
Today in the office and on the LUGS irc we were playing around with it a little bit. If domain names with umlaut are allowed, also hostnames with umlaut should be possible and should work. This can be set up in the dns with the punycode just now to test it out. Check out http://�bel.lugs.ch/ (or http://uebel.lugs.ch/ which redirects to http://xn--bel-goa.lugs.ch/ if your browser doesn't support punycode yet). On this website is also a converter which converts umlaut names to punycode names and vice versa. I was trying it out with some different browsers, the almost antique Netscape 4.8, which I'm still using failed (I was expecting it to do this). But a Mozilla 1.2.1 and Mozilla 1.3 failed also. Internet Explorer 6.0 (with SP1 and all the patches) which I a have on a Win98 failed too. Then I upgraded Mozilla to 1.6 on the Win98, and finaly this one works. The squid proxy which I also use did not have a problem when the browsers sends the name with punycode. I just tested a Mozilla 1.4 on a Linux box at work, this one works too. Somebody else was testing to send emails to such umlaut sub domains, it failed also. Sorry I don't know more details on this one. bye Fabian ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
