Hi Amit, Since the introduction of the IDN "testbed" in November 2000, we've provided RACE conversion scripts into the client code(opensrs-client-2.xx/cgi/RACE.cgi) which you can use in any programmatic way you chose. We do not however provide a server side API call that will do the conversion for you. I caution you from spending too much time on any RACE related development since Verisign is converting all IDN names to the punycode standard to meet IDN RFC's which were published earlier this year, all IDN registrars are expected to have completed their migration by Feb 2004 and thus moving away from RACE altogether.
We will be taking part in this migration later this year and I'll be letting you all know what impact this has on those resellers with an interest in IDN names. For an interesting read on these new RFC's and how a major browser now supports them you may find the following article quite interesting (http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/idn/). I wonder how long before MS-IE takes (if ever) to support these standards? Cheers, James James M Woods Product Manager TLD's Tucows Inc. 416-538-5453 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amit Rana Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: idn Hi, What is the suggested way of converting multi-lingual (or non-english) domains to race-encoded strings? Does TuCows provide and api for the same or we are expected to do the conversion ourselves or are we expected to use http://www.opensrs.org/cgi-bin/RACE/index.cgi Please feel free to fwd me to any documentation which might answer this. Regards, Amit.
