[Bug 1040586] Re: Cyrillic characters shown with wrong encoding

[Clint Byrum]

Hello!

I can confirm that some domains coming from whois.ua are shown
improperly when one's LANG is set to UTF-8.

Unfortunately, the whois protocol is a bit simplistic and does not
support any encoding specification. So one has to guess. It would appear
that the authors of whois have guessed that whois.ua will return koi8-u
encoded text. But the two domains I checked had UTF-8 encoded entries.

It would help if a native speaker would reach out to the administrators
of whois.ua and ask them if they are enforcing any one encoding on their
entries. If that turns out to be utf-8 instead of koi8-u, then we can
just change the entry in 'servers_charset_list'

** Changed in: whois (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: whois (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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  Cyrillic characters shown with wrong encoding

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