fredagen den 9 januari 2004 18.48 skrev Tom Collins: > On Jan 7, 2004, at 4:33 PM, Philipp Wagner wrote: > > Hi, > > today I thought about the new domain names with some country specific > > chars (IDN-Domains), like they are offered for com/net/org already and > > for some European domains (de etc.) from March 1st on. > > Is it right, that if I want to login into qmailadmin, that I would have > > to enter the punycode-encoded domain name? > > That is bad for customers, because they normally don't remember their > > punycode-domainname, but only their domain name with the special > > characters. For example, the domain > > sch�lerzeitung.net would be xn--schlerzeitung-yob.net > > Is it possible to integrate that conversion into qmailadmin like the > > webbrowser does it? > > On Jan 9, 2004, at 2:11 AM, huleboer wrote: > > From 18 feb if I remember correctly norwegian characters like ��� > > will be > > allowed to use on the internet. This included characters like ���. > > Full list > > is available from > > http://www.norid.no/domeneregistrering/idn/idn_nyetegn.html. > > > > If I try to do a: > > ./vadddomain tytteb�r.no > > I get > > Error: Invalid domain name > > > > Get the same problem with vaddaliasdomain. I don't know if this is a > > qmail > > issue or vpopmail issue. But any1 have a fix? Is this a problem just > > with > > vadddomain/vaddaliasdomain or will it require more changes inn > > qmail/vpopmail? > > It's obvious that this is going to be a significant issue for vpopmail > and qmailadmin. On the backend, we'll be storing everything in 7-bit > ASCII (xn--schlerzeitung-yob.net in the example given above), but allow > for users to enter unicode names into the command-line programs for > vpopmail, and display the properly formatted name in qmailadmin. > > Can someone with a more detailed knowledge of these systems point the > developers to a concise description of how to add support for it to > vpopmail and qmailadmin? Perhaps the relevant RFCs? Code libraries > that we could simply integrate into our programs? This looks like a > good summary: <http://www.dns.pl/IDN/idn_intro_eng.html>.
As a coincidence I have fiddled some with this. I introduced libidn to Mandrake contribs. I patched latest BIND with the idnkit that will make it into Mandrake Linux 10 (in a month or so). I also patched glibc with the libidn patches (http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2003-10/msg01025.php). I think you will find loads of info starting from here: http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/ Cheers.
