
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><div>On 13 Oct 2017, at 09:17, nusenu <<a href="mailto:nusenu-lists@riseup.net">nusenu-lists@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Hi,</span><br><span></span><br><span>I'm trying to find out if non-ASCII characters are allowed in descriptor</span><br><span>data (and what onionoo would do with non-ASCII currently displayed as "?").</span><br><span></span><br><span>According to the spec non-ASCII chars are not allowed:</span><br><span><a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n218">https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n218</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>I searched trac because I remembered there were some ASCII related tickets:</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1258">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1258</a></span><br><span>closed due to</span><br><span><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1720">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1720</a> (which has nothing</span><br><span>to do with non-ASCII)</span><br><span><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1270">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1270</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Is this summary correct?</span><br><span></span><br><span>Currently non-ASCII is not compliant with the spec but your consensus is</span><br><span>that non-ASCII chars should be supported but no one got around to patch</span><br><span>the spec and implementation.</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>Non-ASCII characters are supported in the contact and platform fields.</div><div>Some contact fields use non-ASCII for accented characters, and relay</div><div>operators want us to continue to support them.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2011">https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2011</a></div><div><br></div><div>There is a ticket about requiring ASCII in relay descriptors, which we</div><div>should wontfix. There is a ticket about requiring ASCII in extrainfo</div><div>descriptors, which we closed because we fixed the underlying</div><div>memory disclosure bug.</div><div><br></div><div>T</div></body></html>