Thanks Marco, > On 19 Nov 2025, at 12:08, Marco d'Itri <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 22, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Support, as proposed, with whois output kept at Latin-1 unless a client >> signals "yes, I can handle UTF-8", and just using UTF-8 in the more >> modern protocols (RDAP, Web API, etc). > FWIW, my client started asking for UTF-8 output from the RIPE server since > version 5.6.1. > Older versions expect Latin-1 encoding as usual. > > It is available in Debian 13, but most other distributions apparently do not > care to keep the whois client up to date in stable releases: > https://repology.org/project/whois/versions . >
I used Whois 5.6.3 on debian and confirmed the following flags were sent by default to the RIPE database server : "-V Md5.6.3 --charset UTF-8" Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC ----- To unsubscribe from this mailing list or change your subscription options, please visit: https://mailman.ripe.net/mailman3/lists/db-wg.ripe.net/ As we have migrated to Mailman 3, you will need to create an account with the email matching your subscription before you can change your settings. More details at: https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/mailman-3-migration/
