[tor-dev] non-ASCII handling in tor and onionoo

[teor]

> On 13 Oct 2017, at 09:17, nusenu <nusenu-lists at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to find out if non-ASCII characters are allowed in descriptor
> data (and what onionoo would do with non-ASCII currently displayed as "?").
> 
> According to the spec non-ASCII chars are not allowed:
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n218
> 
> I searched trac because I remembered there were some ASCII related tickets:
> 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1258
> closed due to
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1720 (which has nothing
> to do with non-ASCII)
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1270
> 
> 
> Is this summary correct?
> 
> Currently non-ASCII is not compliant with the spec but your consensus is
> that non-ASCII chars should be supported but no one got around to patch
> the spec and implementation.

Non-ASCII characters are supported in the contact and platform fields.
Some contact fields use non-ASCII for accented characters, and relay
operators want us to continue to support them.

https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2011

There is a ticket about requiring ASCII in relay descriptors, which we
should wontfix. There is a ticket about requiring ASCII in extrainfo
descriptors, which we closed because we fixed the underlying
memory disclosure bug.

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