API Post Zone with UTF-8 Characters like ü,ä

[Kr0san89]

Hello,

i tried to add a new Zone on Endpoint POST /api/v1/servers/localhost/zones with a body
{"name": "büro.de.", "kind": "Native", "masters": [], "nameservers": ["ns1.example.org.", "ns2.example.org."]}

But the Server returns (HTTP Status 422 Unprocessable Entity)
{ "error": "Name 'b\\195\\188ro.de.' contains unsupported characters" }

further i tried to add it with the encoding inside: (same result)
{"name": "b\\195\\188ro.de.", "kind": "Native", "masters": [], "nameservers": ["ns1.example.org.", "ns2.example.org."]}

The interesting thing is you can create such zones with
`pdnsutil create-zone``
and you can even read them with the Endpoint GET /api/v1/servers/localhost/zones/büro.de.

I was wondering if there is a way to create zones with the API including UTF-8 characters.

I also found this issue with some similar issue but on another Endpoint #12725
Does the stricter validation also apply here? and why is it even stricter?

[Habbie]

If you type a unicode name into your browser, it will not go out and do UTF-8 queries, it will use Punycode. Why do you want to put UTF-8 in your database?

[Kr0san89]

i need a way to get ü,ä and similar characters into powerdns as Zone over the API

[Habbie]

For what purpose?

[Kr0san89]

having ü.ä and so in is valid inside domain names and actually used in german language space. Otherwise i can not create them via API?

[Habbie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#Example_of_IDNA_encoding

[Kr0san89]

thx now i understand you first answer :)