Posted at 2009-11-03 18:49 GMT by RevK
Update #3: 2009-11-03 19:01 GMT

  Our control pages are IDN aware now, showing any punycoded hostnames
  and domain names on the control pages in UTF-8.
  
  IDN allows international characters (unicode) to be used in URLs, and
  translates them to more normal domain character sets. The control pages
  do not translate to punycode, but if you have a domain or host name
  starting xn-- it will convert the output to UTF-8 making it easier to
  manage.
  
  e.g. xn--74h.aaisp.org shows as ☺.aaisp.org on the control pages.
  
  This can then be used in a browser as http://☺.aaisp.org/
  
  Registration of IDN is tricky and there are some complex rules, but if
  you want something in a specific character set then we should be able
  to do that. Most of the registries have restrictions on character sets
  and mixing languages as well as not using characters like ☺, sadly. But
  if you are interested, do ask.
  
  Support of IDN is not 100% yet. It is down to the application (e.g. web
  browser, email client, etc) to handle the characters and many do not.
| However current versions of most browsers do manage it.
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