Re: Implementation of international domainnames ("Punycode")
| From: | Stefan Neufeind | Date: | Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:41:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Implementation of international domainnames ("Punycode") | ||
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On 4 Sep 2003 at 11:12, Stefan Neufeind wrote:
> we've recently talked about international domainname (to be
> introduced in .nl, .ch and .de at the end of 2003). Therefor a
> function "UTF8 2 Punycode" and vice versa would be useful.
>
> a) Where should it go? Separate package under "Internationalisation"?
> b) Has anybody already started implementing something like this?
>
> The docs (rfc3492) and a gnu implementation (GNU IDN) can easily be
> found on the web ...
Addition to my own posting :-)
At
http://josefsson.org/idn.php
you find a page online for testing of punycode-encoding. This uses
the GNU IDN-library by commandline. It could be used to easily make
run tests on the idna-implementation for php.
Stefan