On 9 Jul 2012, at 16:39, Edward Lewis wrote:
Should DiG's output be unchanged or is this "good?" Should the OS vendors be asked to stop this?
IMO, dig should only display what's actually in the DNS packets. Some other tool(s) can be used to render IDNs into whatever non-ASCII scripts/fonts may (or may not) be appropriate. The *last* thing dig needs are even more command line or environment variables.
The output you showed Ed illustrates the problem when poorly thought- out "features" are added and then break things when there was no need whatsoever for that behaviour.
I doubt the Linux kiddies will care. The message in Rob Pike's "cat -v harmful" USENIX talk from the late 1990s is just lost on them.
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