Hello Kees,   
      
   On Thursday January 10 2013 17:24, you wrote to me:   
      
    MvdV>> AllowNonAscii 0|1    ??   
      
    KE>  You cannot be sereous.   
      
   I am.   
      
    MvdV>> So... /if/ we allow non ASCII in the nodleist, it will have to   
    MvdV>> be encoded as UTF-8.   
      
    KE>  If the solution was easy, there would be a RFC that would describe   
    KE>  extended character use in domain names and email addressing.   
      
    KE>  Well maybe there is??   
      
   There are about a dozen. Here is a list:   
      
   The revised IDNABIS specification (aka IDNA2008):   
      
   RFC 5890 [TXT, 53 KB] Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA):   
   Definitions and Document Framework   
      
   RFC 5891 [TXT, 38 KB] Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA):   
   Protocol   
      
   RFC 5892 [TXT, 183 KB] The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain   
   Names for Applications (IDNA)   
      
   RFC 5893 [TXT, 38 KB] Right-to-Left Scripts for Internationalized Domain Names   
   for Applications (IDNA)   
      
   RFC 5894 [TXT, 113 KB] Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA):   
   Background, Explanation, and Rationale   
      
   The initial IDNA RFCs (aka IDNA2003):   
      
   RFC 3454 [TXT, 136 KB] Preparation of Internationalized Strings ("stringprep")   
      
   RFC 3490 [TXT, 52 KB] Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications   
      
   RFC 3491 [TXT, 12 KB] Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized   
   Domain Names   
      
   RFC 3492 [TXT, 68 KB] Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for   
   Internationalized Domain Names in Applications   
      
   Informational texts:   
      
   RFC 3743 [TXT, 76 KB] Joint Engineering Team (JET) Guidelines for IDN   
   Registration and Administration for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean   
      
   RFC 4185 [TXT, 52 KB] National and Local Characters for DNS Top Level Domain   
   (TLD) Names   
      
   RFC 4690 [TXT, 100 KB] Review and Recommendations for Internationalized Domain   
   Names   
      
      
   More on: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/rfcs   
      
   You may also want to search for punycode.   
      
      
   Cheers, Michiel   
      
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