[ssac-gnso-irdwg] Technical issues of internationalization

[Steve Sheng <steve.sheng@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all, I thought of an question and want to raise it here.

Currently Whois terminal clients may use specific encodings (e.g. GB2312 for 
simplified Chinese, Big5 for traditional Chinese, etc) instead of UTF-8 or 
UTF-16. So what happens when a user submit a U-label domain name query in Big5 
or GB2312? Should we expect the corresponding server to be able to interpret 
it? How would the Whois server know what encoding the client's submission is in?


Warmly,
Steve