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How to enter domains with special characters? (IDNs)

Posted on October 6, 2014

I tried adding a new domain with õ character and I got the following warning.

“Only valid hostname characters are allowed. (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, ., _ and -) Or a single record of ‘@’. and Name contains invalid characters”



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awesome thanks for share it. #punsong

Thanks @madlittlemods !

Was able to enter the xn encoded version. Hopefully it will start working as well. Thanks guys!

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