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Drath Vedro
Asked: 2016-10-24 12:51:18 +0800 CST

How to add non-latin entries in hosts file

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Is there a way to add non-latin entries in /etc/hosts on windows?

Something like

127.0.0.1   локалхост

Tried the code above and also punycode with no luck

Yes, i know that this would break almost any app and wouldn't pass any validation. I only need to pull this off for a single machine.

windows hosts unicode

2 Answers

  1. Scratch that, punycodes actually do work. This code

    127.0.0.1 xn--80atccmdviy

    works as expected, it's just that ping for some reason won't find host, probably due to cmd working in CP-1251 instead of UTF-8.

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  2. To my knowledge there is no way to use Unicode characters in the windows hosts file

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