Re: Implementation of international domainnames ("Punycode")

On 4 Sep 2003 at 5:55, Xavier Noguer wrote: > "Stefan Neufeind" <stefan@neufeind.net> escribió > > > 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. Also had this sort of feeling, yes :-)) But you could also argue it has something to do with internationalisation. Hmm - so should it do into an existing package under Networking in your eyes? > > b) Has anybody already started implementing something like this? > > No, but I would be glad to help if necessary. Fine! > > The docs (rfc3492) and a gnu implementation (GNU IDN) can easily be > > found on the web ... > > Are you planning on using libidn? Thought about that for a second. But I guess since this should also be doable quite performant in php we don't need to depend on the gnu implementation. So I would propose to use the rfc for implementation and maybe use gnu idn for tests of the class. What do the others think? Again: Any volunteer for implementing? I currently lack too much time :-( Stefan