http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30oct09-en.htm From article: "The coming introduction of non-Latin characters represents the biggest technical change to the Internet since it was created four decades ago," said ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush. "Right now Internet address endings are limited to Latin characters – A to Z. But the Fast Track Process is the first step in bringing the 100,000 characters of the languages of the world online for domain names." More info at: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Features/NonLatinCharacters Requirements Client tools need to make sure that all host names are in Pune encoding before sending to rhnParent. Client tools should accept non latin domains as entry (eg. serverURL) and encode it to Pune, before connect() or before it is send to rhnParent. We will store host names in DB in Pune encoding. We will have to go through WebUI and anytime we present hostname (SDC, device info, monitoring...) we will decode Pune string to UTF-8. We will modify JavaDoc for API calls and whenever hostname is used, we will note that we accept/return hostname in Pune encoding.
Commited to spacewalk git. Commits from 695e8f7a792996b7e51f9fd2b11789d26e625753 to 382a5dbbcbe78cc334d3b2d167e86e1cb292e45d (aprox. 30 commits) and 4342cb5b600dd2ce9785fd471769ca357601c7fc This commit may be relevant as well: cfebfa679c3919e1d98db11d3272bf338d0cd3e5 to be continue...
changes in webui has been done in spacewalk.git in commits: d3bf18726d0117f44214b2914a3e71693edac0c3 4b4b1650ef4cd40b491764a949dee44506bcaf04 0d6d46f29e666cff294689b471a6a363f83c9077 f7eefed0ea337a932bc9d8ce88950026b4a2962e d6902867cad5a94f5c91884237d0387812b42f4c e0d234c0dea61fda4f7c992d03705dbf48a76bbc 3e738c0ce75fe4e4e21cf8959d775cfef4648603
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0875.html