[Pdns-users] gmysql: Is latin1 really necessary? What are the consequences of using UTF-8?

[Michael Loftis]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 8:17 AM Michael Loftis <mloftis at wgops.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 8:15 AM Nicholas Williams via Pdns-users
> <pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com> wrote:
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> > I thought domain names have supported unicode characters for several years now.
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> Not at the protocol level they're not.   They're punycode.


And more explicitly, it's not UTF.  It's IDN....
https://unicode.org/faq/idn.html