Christian Hammers <chamm...@netcologne.de> writes: > Package: libidn11 > Version: 1.15-2 > Severity: normal > > > Quoting > http://www.denic.de/en/domains/internationalized-domain-names/sharp-s.html > "Since 4 August 2010, the IDNAbis standard allows the Latin small letter > sharp s – > also known as "Eszett" or "sharp s" ("ß") – to be used as part of a domain > name" > > The IDN library (1.15 as well as 1.22 from unstable) still converts it to > "ss": > > $ idn --quiet --idna-to-ascii baß.de > bass.de > > Changing the behaviour will of course break backwards compatibility but > as the compatibility was broken by the IDNA standard itself, the library > should continue to follow the standard (at least in methods that have > "idna" in their name).
Hi Christian. libidn.so implements the old IDNA standard, retroactively called IDNA2003. The page above talks about IDNAbis, or usually called IDNA2008, which libidn.so and idn don't support. IDNA2008 and IDNA2003 are not compatible. The GNU Libidn project contains another library and tool, libidn2 and idn2, which implements the IDNA2008 algorithm. It works like this: jas@latte:~$ idn2 baß.de xn--ba-hia.de jas@latte:~$ So I believe your request should be re-categorised as 1) a request to package libidn2, and 2) modify any applications you are concerned with to support it. If you just want to do the conversions on the command line, 1) will suffice. I'll see if I can get some packaging up and running... /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
