DNS problem in domain names with characters in greek

[tsiou]

Hi, as you can see in the page below :
https://grweb.ics.forth.gr/english/gr_char_en.html
it is possible for our customers in greece to have domain names in greek
language.
Does directadmin supports greek characters in dns?
I tried to add a domain name in greek and i have the following error :

Invalid Domain Name: γράφημα.gr

thanks in advance.

 

[morfargekko]

Hi, You have to use the IDN and Punycode to make it work. We have the same problem here in Sweden. You have to begin reading at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode .

After that You can go to http://www.motobit.com/util/punycode-decoder-encoder.asp or http://punycode.bluerider.com/idn/

Thanks!

PS.
Here is an example of what You are talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IDN-utopia-greek.jpg

 

[tsiou]

Thanks for your time..
the problem still goes on..
i did a domain pointer as : xn--xxxyyy.gr
but DA still redirects to server's main site (main domain) and not the right domain. is something else that i should also check?
I have read in the internet that DeafultCharacterSet utf-8 must be present in httpd.conf but it's commented out and when i enable it i get an error message in apache..
What is your configuration?

Thanks in advance.

 

[nobaloney]

Is this an issue of DNS or of Apache?

Try an nslookup (or dig) using a Greek-language FQDN, to see if the problem is in DNS. If the nslookup or dig succeeds then DNS is working, and the problem is in how Apache is set up.

Jeff