--- iputils-s20121011/Makefile.orig	2012-10-15 12:30:47.000000000 +0200
+++ iputils-s20121011/Makefile	2012-10-15 12:31:53.057830727 +0200
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 arping: arping.o
 	$(LINK.o) -o $@ $^ $(LIB_SYSFS) $(LIB_CAP)
 ping: ping.o ping_common.o
-	$(LINK.o) -o $@ $^ $(LIB_CAP)
+	$(LINK.o) -o $@ $^ -lidn $(LIB_CAP)
 ping6: ping6.o ping_common.o
 	$(LINK.o) -o $@ $^ -lresolv -lcrypto $(LIB_CAP)
 
diff -up iputils-s20100418/ping.c.idn iputils-s20100418/ping.c
--- iputils-s20100418/ping.c.idn	2010-04-20 16:07:59.038484302 +0200
+++ iputils-s20100418/ping.c	2010-04-20 16:07:59.077485007 +0200
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ char copyright[] =
  *	This program has to run SUID to ROOT to access the ICMP socket.
  */
 
+#include <idna.h>
+#include <locale.h>
+
 #include "ping_common.h"
 
 #include <netinet/ip.h>
@@ -123,6 +126,10 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 	char *target, hnamebuf[MAX_HOSTNAMELEN];
 	char rspace[3 + 4 * NROUTES + 1];	/* record route space */
 
+	char *idn;
+	int rc = 0;
+	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+
 	icmp_sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_ICMP);
 	socket_errno = errno;
 
@@ -250,13 +257,27 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 			if (argc == 1)
 				options |= F_NUMERIC;
 		} else {
-			hp = gethostbyname(target);
+			rc = idna_to_ascii_lz (target, &idn, 0);
+			if (rc == IDNA_SUCCESS)
+				hp = gethostbyname (idn);
+			else {
+				fprintf(stderr, "ping: IDN encoding of '%s' failed with error code %d\n", target, rc);
+				exit(2);
+			}
+			free(idn);
 			if (!hp) {
 				fprintf(stderr, "ping: unknown host %s\n", target);
 				exit(2);
 			}
 			memcpy(&whereto.sin_addr, hp->h_addr, 4);
-			strncpy(hnamebuf, hp->h_name, sizeof(hnamebuf) - 1);
+			rc = idna_to_unicode_lzlz (hp->h_name, &idn, 0);
+			if (rc == IDNA_SUCCESS)
+				strncpy(hnamebuf, idn, sizeof(hnamebuf) - 1);
+			else {
+				fprintf(stderr, "ping: IDN encoding of '%s' failed with error code %d\n", hp->h_name, rc);
+				exit(2);
+			}
+			free(idn);
 			hnamebuf[sizeof(hnamebuf) - 1] = 0;
 			hostname = hnamebuf;
 		}
diff -up iputils-s20100418/ping_common.c.idn iputils-s20100418/ping_common.c
--- iputils-s20100418/ping_common.c.idn	2010-04-20 16:07:59.039478452 +0200
+++ iputils-s20100418/ping_common.c	2010-04-20 16:07:59.069478660 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#include <locale.h>
+
 #include "ping_common.h"
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <sched.h>
@@ -98,6 +100,7 @@ static void fill(char *patp)
 
 void common_options(int ch)
 {
+	setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
 	switch(ch) {
 	case 'a':
 		options |= F_AUDIBLE;
@@ -242,6 +245,7 @@ void common_options(int ch)
 	default:
 		abort();
 	}
+	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
 }