<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Colleagues</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">After the recent discussion it seems their is support for the idea of UTF-8, whilst there is also support for Puny code as an interim step.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">To implement UTF-8 in the RIPE Database requires much more detailed discussions, including non technical aspects of the change. This is not likely to happen quickly.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There has been support shown to introduce Puny code as a first step towards internationalisation of the data, which can be done quickly by the RIPE NCC.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Do we therefore have support to introduce Puny code now and then consider how to move forward with UTF-8?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">cheers</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">denis</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">co-chair DB-WG</div></div></body></html>