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[Derek Atkins <>]

Shouldn't be -- all the metadata is in UTF-8 I'm fairly sure..

-derek


 writes:

> ummmm... is this a short-term problem for our metadata?
>
>>From slashdot:
>
>>Posted by michael on Tuesday November 25, @02:03PM
>>from the untypable dept.
>> rduke15 writes "You think you know how to parse a domain name for
>> validity? Well, in case you haven't noticed, things are getting
>> tougher as registrars keep adopting IDN (Internationalized Domain
>> Names), which uses a weird encoding named Punycode to enable
>> accented characters in domain names. The Register reports about
>> Switzerland, Germany and Austria's joint move to enable IDN. See the
>> overview in English from Switch. But I guess it would be difficult
>> to talk about this on /., since it does not even support basic
>> Latin-1 ... :-)"
>
>

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