Chinese allowed for domain name registration data now?

Does anyone know since when does the registration data
for domain names allowed to be in Chinese language?

I thought the whois registration data must be in English.

Andreas.Ochs@usa.net (Andreas Ochs) wrote in news:RIMdc.4861$I83.84008
@twister.tampabay.rr.com:

> Does anyone know since when does the registration data
> for domain names allowed to be in Chinese language?
>
> I thought the whois registration data must be in English.
>

Please look up RFC3490 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3490.txt) and
RFC3492 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3492.txt).
RFC3492 explains how a UNICODE string can be transformed into ASCII.


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After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, Andreas.Ochs@usa.net (Andreas Ochs) belched out:
> Does anyone know since when does the registration data
> for domain names allowed to be in Chinese language?
>
> I thought the whois registration data must be in English.

There may be some variation from TLD to TLD on this; the global TLDs,
I believe, still mandate English (or at least a character set that's
consistent with American English). There may be variations with
country-oriented TLDs as their policies are influenced by local
politics.

You should presumably check the ICANN agreements for your favorite TLD
to see what has been arranged for it...
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