Unicode Character Support
Introduced in Windows 2000 and supported in Windows Server 2012, Unicode support of extended character sets enables DNS to store records written in Unicode, or essentially multiple character sets from many different languages. This functionality essentially allows the DNS server to utilize and perform lookups on records that are written with nonstandard characters, such as underscores, foreign letters, and so on.
Note
Although Microsoft DNS supports Unicode characters, it is a best practice that you make any DNS implementation compliant with the standard DNS character set so that you can support zone transfers to and from non-Unicode-compliant DNS implementations, such as UNIX BIND servers. This character set includes ...
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