On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 2:05 PM nusenu nusenu-lists@riseup.net wrote:
In section "Defined fields" you write:
Non-ASCII characters are not supported.
I'm not sure if this applies only to keys or also to values? With the availability of IDN (https://unicode.org/faq/idn.html) in email addresses, supporting only US-ASCII values is too limited.
I'd suggest that we should allow UTF-8 for values, at least. It looks like we're standardizing on UTF-8 as our character encoding for directory documents in Proposal 285.
The state of prop-285 (open) was actually the reason why I did not put UTF-8 into the CIISS :)
Oops! Actually, that proposal should be "Accepted". We've gotten behind in labelling them. There's a ticket to label them right at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/issues/1
Is prop-285 already implemented in tor?
Partially. Directory authorities reject anything that isn't UTF-8, in dirserv_add_multiple_descriptors().
In that case I'm happy to add UTF-8 as recommended.
cheers, -- Nick