The “поддерживаю.рф” project has launched a unified knowledge base on the implementation of Universal Acceptance of IDN and e-mail addresses – вики.поддерживаю.рф.
The new wiki is intended for software developers, system administrators and all interested IT professionals. The knowledge base contains practical recommendations and training materials on developing and configuring software for full support of Russian Cyrillic domains, including .РФ, .SU, .ДЕТИ, .МОСКВА, .РУС, and mail addresses using them.
For your convenience, the materials are presented in two main sections - for system administrators and software developers.
For system administrators, step-by-step instructions and trainings are available for installing and configuring email services with support for internationalized email addresses (EAI) in Russian and other national languages, in particular, for FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS operating systems. In addition, guidelines have been published for developing mail service EAI policies when creating internationalized mailboxes, as well as the aliases and display names used for them.
For software developers, in one place are collected technical recommendations, available ready-made software solutions (including popular libraries and frameworks for C, C#, Go, Java, Javascript, Python3, Rust), testing tools and methods for implementing the correct processing of EAI addresses in the developed software and IDN domains. The recommendations describe the principles of processing and storing Russian-language domain names and their corresponding e-mail addresses, as well as their validation, taking into account the rules of Russian domain zones.
The open access knowledge base site has records of seminars and trainings on implementing IDN and EAI technology support for Python and Java developers and system administrators.
All technical documentation and training materials are developed on the basis of modern Internet standards and best industry practices by experts from the “поддерживаю.рф” project, the Russian and international working groups on Universal Acceptance. Knowledge base materials will be supplemented.
“The main purpose of our project is to help technical specialists with the speedy implementation of support for Cyrillic Internet identifiers. We collect and share in a convenient and simple form the most relevant and useful knowledge on how to currently ensure work with Russian-language domains and mailing addresses. For example, how to implement support for industry standards in the software being developed, which software products to choose with already built-in support for IDN and EAI, or how to properly configure the technical solutions used. Our experience shows that today almost any application, corporate system or website can be configured to work correctly with the Cyrillic alphabet,” said Maria Kolesnikova, project manager for “поддерживаю.рф”.
