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"Juárez" can be done with ASCII tho

> "Juárez" can be done with ASCII tho

No it can't? Are you thinking of ISO-8859-1 or Windows codepage 1252 maybe?

Do you sell to Korea? If so, ask the Korea team. If not, don't allow it.

Simple but less culturally sensitive solution: English is the linga franca so tell them to either romanize their company name or come up with a brand name using latin characters.

삼성전자 can be written as Samseong jeonja in latin characters and translated literally as Tristar Electronics but they do business as samsung.com

I think it's cool that we figured out a way to encode CJK and other foreign script into ASCII-only domain names but if there's a serious concern about opening yourself to domain spoofing because someone picked the wrong encoding, just use ASCII characters.