- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 21:03:07 -0500
- To: www-lib@w3.org
Dear Libwww community, The IETF IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) Working Group (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idn-charter.html) has worked for a long time, and has mostly completed its work. The relevant RFCs are supposed to be released shortly. Together with Jose, I have started to check how to implement IDN in libwww (and therefore in Amaya). Please expect to see some new code over the next few weeks. Please don't hesitate to ask questions and give comments. To give you some additional background, the plan is to accept IRIs encoded in UTF-8 or %-escaped (based on UTF-8) domain names and to do the conversion to punycode (the very specialized encoding used in IDN) in HTGetHostByName in HTDNS.c. On my machine, I have the %-escaping part already working (i.e. http://www.w%33.org resolves to the same place as http://www.w3.org). Well, I have to admit that this was the easy part :-). Currently, the plan is to either use http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ as a separate library or to use code from idnkit-1.0pr2 at http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/mdnkit/download/#sources. The former is probably more straightforward, but the later comes with less strings attached. If you have any preference, please tell me. Regards, Martin. #-#-#-#-#-#-#-# Dr.sc. Martin J. Du"rst Internationalization Activity Lead World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Visiting Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science 200 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Tel: +1 617 253 5509 Fax: +1 617 258 5999 mailto:duerst@w3.org http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/People/D%c3%bcrst #-#-#-#-#-#-#-#
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