David Watson <bai...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: I was looking at the MSDN pages linked to above, and these two pages seemed to suggest that Unicode characters appearing in DNS names represented UTF-8 sequences, and that Windows allowed such non-ASCII byte sequences in the DNS by default:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724220%28v=VS.85%29.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682032%28v=VS.85%29.aspx (See the discussion of DNS_ERROR_NON_RFC_NAME in the latter.) Can anyone confirm if this is the case? The BSD-style gethostname() function can't be returning UTF-8, though, or else the "Nötkötti" example above would have been decoded successfully, given that Python currently uses PyUnicode_FromString(). Also, if GetComputerNameEx() only offers a choice of DNS names or NetBIOS names, and both are byte-oriented underneath (that was my reading of the "Computer Names" page), then presumably there shouldn't be a problem with mapping the result to a bytes equivalent when necessary? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9377> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
