Thanks Marco,
On 19 Nov 2025, at 12:08, Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> wrote:
On Oct 22, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
Support, as proposed, with whois output kept at Latin-1 unless a client signals "yes, I can handle UTF-8", and just using UTF-8 in the more modern protocols (RDAP, Web API, etc). FWIW, my client started asking for UTF-8 output from the RIPE server since version 5.6.1. Older versions expect Latin-1 encoding as usual.
It is available in Debian 13, but most other distributions apparently do not care to keep the whois client up to date in stable releases: https://repology.org/project/whois/versions .
I used Whois 5.6.3 on debian and confirmed the following flags were sent by default to the RIPE database server : "-V Md5.6.3 --charset UTF-8" Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC