Re: [ga] whois: issues with uniformity

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

[snip]
>
> >   take non-ASCII content. Possibly desires for alternative values in
> >   different scripts (think about countries where two kinds of
> >   scripts are in use; think "western names" in China)?
>
> There is no discussion about that: Unicode must be used. There is no
> other way to handle the whole world (think that the future ".eu"
> registry, for instance, will need at least Latin-1, Greek and soon
> Latin-2).

both IRIS and LDAP are UTF-8, thus Unicode capable.


-rick


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