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[db-wg] Proposal to allow non-ASCII characters in "org-name:", "person:" and "role:" attributes

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Leo Vegoda leo at vegoda.org
Fri Nov 24 16:18:08 CET 2023

Hi,

On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 at 03:02, Edward Shryane via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:

[...]

> We can migate internally to UTF-8 while keeping the current syntax rules, so nothing changes for the user yet (i.e. the database changes but not the interfaces).
>
> Once we use UTF-8 internally we can start to support non-latin-1 characters in attributes and convert interfaces to use UTF-8, as decided by the community.

This seems a reasonable approach.

It would be good to move to a place where registrants can record their
actual legal name in the database and have that displayed to other
users.

Kind regards,

Leo

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