[db-wg] Re: Proposal to Allow UTF-8 in "descr:" and "remarks" Attributes

Ed, all, On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 08:59:41AM +0300, Edward Shryane wrote:

Is there support for adding UTF-8 in the RIPE database? Please let me know your feedback.

makes sense to me.

Valid Codepoints Validate UTF-8 input with the IDNA 2008 standard to decide whether a Unicode codepoint is allowed (i.e. only allow protocol valid code points). This standard is used in the implementation of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs). This allows for consistency (code points will be mapped to a specific set of characters) and improved security (using an inclusion model to only allow certain characters).

limiting the code points is likely a good thing, finding the exact reference would benefit from a bit more thought, though. Later. Best Peter