Thanks to Blair for raising this question. We implemented IDNs for Māori characters because that's an official language of NZ and we made a commitment to do it several years ago. We held back on other characters such as acute... The idea that the Internet world is going to remain an ASCII character set world (or Roman character set if you allow for acute, grave, umlaut and other "European" language marks) seems naive when the ICANN program to add global IDN TLDs that have addresses written in Urdu, Russian, Arabic etc is well advanced. Software will need to evolve to meet those needs. At this stage the .nz Names Space is not a barrier that people can use to say "There's no point as the DNS doesn't support it". And I'd like to see more than three registrars supporting this. And I agree with Blair when he says "As far as I'm concerned if the front end doesn't let you enter it in directly, there is no support :)"