What are the allowed characters in a subdomain?

Question

What characters are you allowed to use in a subdomain?

Example: for someSub.example.com the someSub portion.

I know you can use le

Answer 1

According to this page, some top level domains now allow localized characters (not just a-z).

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| Top Level Domain |                    Allowed Characters                     |
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| .no              | áàäčçđéèêŋńñóòôöšŧüžæøå                                   |
| .se              | àáäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôöøùúüýþćčđěłńŋřśšţŧźžǎǐǒǔǥǧǩǯəʒ, plus Hebrew
| .dk              | äåæéöøü
| .is              | áéýúíóþæöð
| .it              | àâäèéêëìîïòôöùûüæœçÿ
| .fr              | àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöùúûüýÿœ
| .nu              | àáâäåāæçèéêëēìíîïīðñŋòóôõöøōùúûüūýþÿ
| .be              | àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿœ
| .de              | àáâãäåāăąæçćĉċčďđèéêëēĕėęěŋðĝğġģĥħìíîïĩīĭįıĵķĸĺļľł
|                  | ñńņňòóôõöøōŏőœŕŗřśŝşšţťŧþùúûüũūŭůűųŵýÿŷźżž
| .as              | Same as .de
| .com             | Same as .de, plus Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, Korean, etc.
| .net             | Same as .de, plus Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, Korean, etc.
| .org             | áäåāąæćčéēėęģíīįķļłñńņðóöøōőŗśšúüūűųýźżžþ plus Cyrillic and Korean
| .info            | áäåāąæćčéēėęģíīįķļłńņðóöøōőŗśšúüūűųýźżžþ plus Korean
| .biz             | àáäåæéêíðñòóôöøúüýþ
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So, looks like we need to go back to the drawing board on that regex.