domain validator fails for äöü

[georgkrause]

if a domain contains german letters like ä, ö or ü, which would be valid, the validator fails.

[commutecat]

You can use python3 str.encode('idna')
For python 2 , make sure you convert the string to unicode.

# python 3
domain_name = 'http://kräuter.com'
validators.url(domain_name.encode('idna').decode())

# python 2 
validators.url(domain_name.decode("utf-8").encode('idna'))

[georgkrause]

I know how to geht around. But thats unexpected behavior

[commutecat]

Anyway, I stop using validators.url () as there is still many fixes required :

• it think IP address is invalid
• it think spaces in Url is bad
• it will failed with hostname contains double dash . So my shown examples actually doesn't works. (due to xn--)