Package: gwhois
Version: 20090717.1
Severity: important
Tags: l10n

If the input is a non-ASCII domain, it seems the software handles this query in a inappropriate way.

$ gwhois testä.de
Process query: 'testä.de'
Querying whois.denic.de:43 with whois.
...
result:
% "test�.de" is not a valid domain name

instead of:
% Object "testä.de" not found in database


$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gwhois depends on:
ii curl 7.19.7-1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy ii libwww-perl 5.834-1 Perl HTTP/WWW client/server librar ii lynx-cur 2.8.8dev.2-1 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup ii openbsd-inetd [inet-superse 0.20080125-4 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver ii perl 5.10.1-9 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction

gwhois recommends no packages.

gwhois suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded



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