Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-09 Thread Clayton
This looks nuts! Many of us have no convenient (or any) access to characters like this. I can do some of them in a word-proceesor, but certainly not in e-mail or Google, etc. Whose dumb idea was this, anyway? But I can, and so can all or most of my compatriots. Remember I was talking

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-09 Thread Per Jessen
Clayton wrote: This looks nuts! Many of us have no convenient (or any) access to characters like this. I can do some of them in a word-proceesor, but certainly not in e-mail or Google, etc. Whose dumb idea was this, anyway? But I can, and so can all or most of my compatriots. Remember I

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-10-09 at 11:10 +0200, Clayton wrote: See: áéíóúàèìòùâêîôûäëïöüñÁÉÍÓÚÀÈÌÒÙÄËÏÖÜÂÊÎÔÛçÇñÑ and more: ćǵḱĺḿńṕŕśẃź I can understand why people would want these localized characters in their domain names. It totally makes sense from

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-09 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-09-07 11:05]: The Tuesday 2007-10-09 at 11:10 +0200, Clayton wrote: There may be a Compose key somewhere... but I've never heard of it used it... being basically monolingual, with just enough knowledge of

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-09 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-10-09 at 11:16 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: I believe it is enabled by default. no, and ~/.Xmodmap is not there unless you generate it yourself (since 10.1 or earlier ??). Maybe; my system was upgraded from 8 something, over

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-07 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 23:51 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: They [.es] started registering IDN domains only two days ago, but that's about all I know. The charset they allow is published: 'á', 'à', 'é', 'è', 'í', 'ì', 'ó', 'ò', 'ú', 'ü', 'ñ', 'Ç' and 'l·l' but I don't know if there is danger

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-05 Thread Dave Howorth
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 01:06 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: Another curiosity is that the whois for .com do support IDN, but others, like .cl or .es, do not - and they should, as they are interested parties in this. Also interesting and perhaps relevant is that cl is listed as a good guy on:

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-05 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-10-05 at 13:13 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 01:06 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: Another curiosity is that the whois for .com do support IDN, but others, like .cl or .es, do not - and they should, as they are

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-10-05 at 13:13 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 01:06 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: Another curiosity is that the whois for .com do support IDN, but others, like .cl or .es, do not - and they

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-05 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-05-07 19:49]: This looks nuts! Many of us have no convenient (or any) access to characters like this. I can do some of them in a word-proceesor, but certainly not in e-mail or Google, etc. Whose dumb idea

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-05 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-10-05 at 19:47 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: They started registering IDN domains only two days ago, but that's about all I know. The charset they allow is published: 'á', 'à', 'é', 'è', 'í', 'ì', 'ó', 'ò', 'ú', 'ü', 'ñ', 'Ç'

[opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, In Spain domain names with international characters ('á', 'à', 'é', 'è', 'í', 'ì', 'ó', 'ò', 'ú', 'ü', 'ñ', 'Ç' y 'l·l') have been enabled since yesterday (http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/2007/10/01/tecnologia/1191262954.html) There is a

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Mielke
] Internet domain names with international characters (idn) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, In Spain domain names with international characters ('á', 'à', 'é', 'è', 'í', 'ì', 'ó', 'ò', 'ú', 'ü', 'ñ', 'Ç' y 'l·l') have been enabled since yesterday (http://www.elmundo.es

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-10-03 at 03:32 -0700, Martin Mielke wrote: interesting... I can access the site on Firefox 2.x in OpenSuSE 10.2 but I get other codes back: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ host www.ñandú.cl Host www.\195\177and\195\186.cl not found:

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-03 Thread Dave Howorth
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:44 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-10-03 at 03:32 -0700, Martin Mielke wrote: interesting... I can access the site on Firefox 2.x in OpenSuSE 10.2 but I get other codes back: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ host www.ñandú.cl Host www.\195\177and\195\186.cl

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-10-03 at 13:30 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: I think the answer is linked to by the Chilean site: It should be noted that, even though some programs used in the Internet, in particular some browsers, already implement IDN and

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-03 Thread Per Jessen
Carlos E. R. wrote: I'll have to learn more about how it is supposed to work, first. I found another link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name It's really straight forward - IDNs are primarily for end-user consumption. In the real world, or rather behind the scenes,

Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

2007-10-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-10-03 at 18:08 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: I'll have to learn more about how it is supposed to work, first. I found another link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name It's really