Re: [Pdns-users] Re: Re: Domains with binary (e.g. UTF-8) labels

2006-12-20 Thread Benny Amorsen
DA == Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DA Futher, the parsing of dotted DNS names can't be translated DA to/from ascii/wire format. For example, suppose you get a DNS DA record with an UTF8 name in say, hebrew. When this name is DA translated by an ordinary resolver/dns cache/etc from

Re: [Pdns-users] Re: Re: Domains with binary (e.g. UTF-8) labels

2006-12-20 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 09:45:09AM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote: That won't happen. In UTF-8, all multibyte characters have the high bit set in every byte. If I understand correctly, what the new RFCs promise us, is that DNS is binary safe, including dots within a label, with the provision that