Hi Michael,
Sorry I forgot the pointers to documentation.
Reference Documents
[1] RFC3490, Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA),
March 2003.
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3490.txt
[2] RFC3454, Preparation of Internationalized Strings ("stringprep"),
December 2002.
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3454.txt
[3] RFC3491, Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized
Domain Names (IDN), March 2003.
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3491.txt
[4] RFC3492, Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for
Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA), March 2003.
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3492.txt
Thanks,
Suresh
>Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:53:16 +0930
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>Hi Suresh,
>
>Sounds interesting - obviously this work must be targetted on the
>development branch.
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>Do you have any pointers to RFC's and other documentation?
>
>Does this also cover email addressing?
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>Cheers,
> Michael
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>On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:00, Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> We are planning to provide IDN (International Domain Names) support for
>> Evolution. With this support Evolution will be able to process non-ASCII
>> charcaters at domain name, hostname, URI and so on. The effect will be the
user
>> will be able to type in these info in their native language in Evolution.
>>
>> For this we need to deliver IDN library too along with evolution, or
>> Evolution should take advantage of the IDN support available in a platform.
We
>> are looking into the second option of hooking onto the already existing
platform
>> support for IDN.
>>
>> Currently there are many opensource implementations for IDN. We have done an
>> indepth comparison of IDNKIT 1.0 from JPNIC, IDN SDK 1.0.1 from VeriSign
Inc.,
>> and GNU IDN library 0.2.0. and figured out that IDNKIT 1.0 from JPNIC
>>
>> http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/idnkit/download/
>>
>> which feature BSD Open Source License like license is better of the lot
>> interms of the interfaces it provide and coding discipline and also future
>> extensibility.
>>
>> We are planning to enhance Evolution with support for interfaces for the
>> above library.
>>
>> Pl provide your feedback for this proposed enhancement for Evolution.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Suresh
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