location as the first.I have found several perl modules that implement punycode. The first one I picked is Encode::Punycode. Using this I was able to write the following code:
use Encode;
use Encode::Punycode;
use utf8;
print encode('Punycode', 'http://www.中時健康.tw/'), "\n";
and I got the output:
http://www..tw/-vz3x59ynj1eh73a
I can check that this URL does not work in firefox. Nor when I try to do
the reverse do I get a satisfactory result:
use Encode;
use Encode::Punycode;
print decode('Punycode', 'http://www.xn--fiqx7ci2wwkh.tw/'), "\n";
returns the error message
invalid digit in input for decode_punycode at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Encode/Punycode.pm line 25
I think before this could be sent upstream it would help to have a clearer description of how it is supposed to work, a suitable tool to to do the translation and a reason why it needs to be implemented in the distribution and not on top of it.
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