Hi Simon,

thanks for your offer !

I would be happy to push my changes.
There is still time to test/discuss until the next release, I guess.
Are you ok, if I push to master or would you like to have a separate branch ?

My name on Gitlab (and elsewhere) is rockdaboot.

Regards, Tim


On Thursday, December 1, 2016 2:39:55 PM CET Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Hi Tim.  Thanks, this is really cool.  Do you want commit access to
> libidn2 so you can push this?  What's your gitlab username?  I have
> limited time and don't want to be in your way for this to happen.  I'm
> happy to do review, but can't promise when.
> 
> /Simon
> 
> tis 2016-11-29 klockan 22:23 +0100 skrev Tim Rühsen:
> > On Mittwoch, 2. November 2016 10:04:19 CET Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > > > Switching from IDNA2003 to IDNA2008 requires thought.  They are not
> > > > compatible, and IDNA2008 requires pre-processing (e.g., UTS #46 [1])
> > > > to
> > > > be usable in practice.  Libidn2 does not implement any pre-processing,
> > > > it is a pure IDNA2008 implementation.
> > > > 
> > > > [1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/
> > > 
> > > Thanks for this Simon. I wasn't aware.
> > > 
> > > Based on this, I suppose my recommendation is that people simply switch
> > > off
> > > IDN support in curl builds until further notice to stay safe. The old
> > > way
> > > was open for trickery and the new way is incomplete.
> > 
> > Please review and comment https://gitlab.com/rockdaboot/libidn2/tree/tr46
> > (It works for me ).
> > 
> > I would like to open a pull request to libidn2 soon.
> > That code will be useful for any DNS clients resolving IDNs.
> > 
> > From my mail to help-libidn mailing list:
> > 
> > The code introduces new flags for the lookup functions IDN2_TRANSITIONAL
> > and IDN2_NONTRANSITIONAL (mutual exclusive).
> > 
> > IDN2_TRANSITIONAL enables the TR46 transitional process.
> > IDN2_NONTRANSITIONAL enables the TR46 non-transitional process.
> > 
> > Corresponding, the 'idn2' utility now has -T/--tr46t to enable
> > transitional
> > lookup and -N/--tr46nt to enable non-transitional lookup.
> > 
> > Example:
> > $ src/idn2 -T faß.de
> > fass.de
> > 
> > $ src/idn2 -N faß.de
> > xn--fa-hia.de
> > 
> > To show the TR46 mapping (upper->lowercase) in work:
> > $ src/idn2 Faß.de
> > idn2: lookup: string contains a disallowed character
> > 
> > $ src/idn2 -T Faß.de
> > fass.de
> > 
> > $ src/idn2 -N Faß.de
> > xn--fa-hia.de
> > 
> > Regards, Tim

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