<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:20 PM, sammy ominsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s@avoidant.org">s@avoidant.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
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Not exactly on-topic, but I thought I'd ask here anyway, because I don't know a better group of technically-informed Israelis.<br>
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A client of ours would like to take advantage of ISOC's offering of Hebrew domain names, but my DNS isn't set up to handle UTF-8, and it's not worth the effort to make it so for one client. Can anyone here manage DNS for a Hebrew domain, and want to make a couple of shekels doing so?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>What do you mean set up to handle UTF-8 ?<br><br>IDNs are very regular domains, with a minor change - the zone name contains a double dash, which was previously "illegal". You define it as any other domain your your DNS SW.<br>
<br>Just type the Hebrew domain name in Firefox, it will be converted to xn--something [*] - that's what you put in your zone definition, and you're done...<br><br>IDNs were available on .com/.net for quite some time now; It's just ISOC that were slow to adapt what the rest of the world did years ago...<br>
<br>-- Shimi <br></div></div><br>[*] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode</a><br></div>