[db-wg] NWI-11 Internationalised Domain Names

Gert Doering via db-wg wrote on 07/07/2020 16:21:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 05:03:01PM +0200, Benedikt Neuffer wrote:
>> I think at the moment it would be easier to update the clients to
>> convert punycode in whatever encoding you prefer.
> 
> Cementing this abomination even more...

No-one likes punycode.

Do you have a better suggestion?  Would raw utf8 work here?  How much 
would it break?  If there were broader support in the ripedb codebase 
for utf8, would it be possible to work towards a day in the future when 
the ripedb could formally support utf8 across multiple different field 
types, not just email addresses?

Nick