Re: PEAR Account Request: dr

On 8 May 2004 at 17:57, David Rech wrote: > Martin Jansen schrieb: > > > On Sat May 08, 2004 at 04:5323PM +0200, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > > > >>I also have a working IDN-implementation (Punycode) with nameprep, > >>which was also discussed with the maintainer of the I18N for > >>inclusion. But could you possibly provide a link to your source? If > >>possible I'd like to have a look and bring out a "merged" > >>implementation if needed. > > > > > > PECL contains the idn extension (http://pecl.php.net/package/idn/), > > which provides bindings to GNU libidn. It would be nice if a future > > PEAR package made use of it. > > > Kinda great idea! :-)) > > The new/merged/whatever Net_IDN package (anyone agreeing with that > package name?) could make use of the PECL extension if available, or use > the methods written in php if not [or if the PECL extensions fails in > cause of internal/system errors]. On the one hand I think that it might simply go into the current package I18N as a separate class/file. Another solution I can think of would be I18N_Punycode. But to my understanding it's more tied to internationalisation (or charset-conversions) than real "Net", isn't it? Stefan