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

Dear all,

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

I definitely support this, especially as I see that the proposal already deals with my immediate concerns (see below). Best regards, Janos

Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC

Whois (Port 43) Query * The “descr:” and “remarks:” attributes are returned by default on port 43 query responses. * Port 43 will continue to use Latin-1 by default. If so, any UTF-8 characters outside the ASCII character set will be transliterated to Latin-1 or will be substituted with a “?” character. * The client can specify the “-Z utf-8” flag to change the response encoding to UTF-8, then no transliteration will be done.