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Aug 16, 2024

@olivvybee is Unicode supported?

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@stgiga I imagine that depends on the particular dns host, I don’t think it’s standardised that much

@olivvybee @stgiga it

1) definitely violates the spec
2) will probably work fine in dig

@olivvybee @stgiga being pedantic, it should probably be _pronouns for the text record

@olivvybee @stgiga wait I looked up the spec, binary data is allowed? Welp..

@olivvybee @stgiga https://github.com/tailhook/dns-parser/issues/22#issue-267569151

Valid TXT records may contain binary data · Issue #22 · tailhook/dns-parser

The parser insists that the content of a valid TXT record be UTF8, but it ain't necessarily so. RFC 1035 talks about "character-string"s without, so far as I can see, ever spelling out what a "char...

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