[discuss] IANA missing information

Mon Mar 17 18:11:38 UTC 2014

On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 18:59 +0100, Elisabeth Blanconil wrote:
> At 18:09 17/03/2014, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 05:01:21PM +0100, Elisabeth Blanconil wrote:
> >
> > > The IANA TLD database as displayed does not provide the labels
> > > registered in the root (i.e. puny coded) by their displayed script.
> >
> >I'm not sure what you mean.  If I go to
> >http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db, I see the top-level domains as
> >either a traditional LDH-label or else as a U-label.  If I select any
> >U-label, the resulting URI includes the A-label form.  What is the
> >problem you are having, exactly?
> 
> That I do not obtain what you describe. Could you please give me an 
> URL where I can see an "xn--" that I can automatically link to the U-label.
> Thank you!
> Hebe 

When I "mouse over" in firefox the various non-ascii scripts in
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db
..I see what they are linking to, (the first one) 测试 shows xn--0zwm56d

You could also use "idn" - a *nix command line tool...

$ idn 测试 
xn--0zwm56d

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