Transfer domain with German umlaut

Website, Application, Performance DNS & Network
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What is the name of the domain?

something-like-schön.com

What is the issue you’re encountering

Cannot start domain transfer

What feature, service or problem is this related to?

I don’t know

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

I added my domain with German umlaut in Account Home and followed the steps. The original registrar is squarespace: I deactivated DNSSEC and changed the name servers. The domain is now shown besides my other domains with status Active (it is shown with the umlaut, not in ACE form).
Now I want to go to Domain Registration and Transfer Domain but I cannot select the domain (it says Unsupported characters). I am a little bit confused, because the transfer of DNS records worked until here with me entering the non-ACE form of the domain, so Cloudflare apparently knew how to translate the domain to ACE form.

What should I do to transfer the domain? Do I have to delete the domain in the Account Home and add it again in ACE form?

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Convert the domain to punycode and paste that in instead.

You can convert here…

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Your answer does not help me. I know how to convert the domain name to ACE format (e.g. ‘something-like-schön.com’), but I need advice on what to do in in cloudflare. Do I need to delete the domain in the dashboard and add it again with the other format? Is there a configuration field where I can paste the ACE format? Can I “convert” the existing domain?

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Funnily enogh the board here converted the ACE format (“punycode”) to the UTF-8 domain name… (it was xn–something-like-schn-76b dot com)

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I forgot, Cloudflare Registrar does not yet support IDNs so you won’t be able to transfer the domain…

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