Re: Implementation of international domainnames ("Punycode")
| From: | Xavier Noguer | Date: | Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:55:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Implementation of international domainnames ("Punycode") | ||
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"Stefan Neufeind" <stefan@neufeind.net> escribió
> Hi,
>
> 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"?
Is there any use for it besides DNS? If not, I think it should go into
Networking.
> b) Has anybody already started implementing something like this?
No, but I would be glad to help if necessary.
> The docs (rfc3492) and a gnu implementation (GNU IDN) can easily be
> found on the web ...
Are you planning on using libidn?
Xavier