Hello James,
Thanks for your response.
> 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.
Yes, I had been using RACE for another registry, even tried to implement
it in Java but wasn't successful :-(
> 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?
We are using a plugin provided by Verisign for IE. If anyone is
interested I can dig for the url.
Regards,
Amit.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James M Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:53 AM
> To: 'Amit Rana'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: idn
>
> 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.
