BTW, the next version of ICU will contain an IDNA implementation. One of our engineers also put together an on-line demonstration that maps back and forth, at:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/idnademo Mark (ᛗᚪᚱᚳ) ________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM, MS 50-2/B11, 5600 Cottle Rd, SJ CA 95193 (408) 256-3148 fax: (408) 256-0799 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshiro YONEYA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 23:52 Subject: [idn] idnkit-1.0 released > Hi, > > Today, JPNIC released idnkit-1.0 which is fully compliant to IDN RFCs. > You can obtain idnkit-1.0 from following URL: > > http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/idnkit/download/ > > The idnkit-1.0 is a bsd-like licensed open source free software, and > its major features are: > > - provides IDN <--> Punycode converter named `idnconv' > It will help system administrators who manage IDN in zone files > and / or Web configuration files. > > - provides IDNA C programming APIs named `libidnkit' and `libidnkitlite' > They will help software programmers who are going to develop IDNA > compliant products. > The difference between `libidnkit' and `libidnkitlite' is, > `libidnkit' can handle many charsets and encodings using `iconv' > while `libidnkitlite' can handle only UTF-8. > > For users mDNkit-2.X/idnkit-1.0prX: > > - Supports Unicode 3.2 only. Unicode 3.0.1 and 3.1 are no longer > supported. NFKC table size is significantly reduced. > > - idnkit provides mDNkit compatible APIs if `--enable-mdnkit-compat' > configure option is specified. > > - idnkit supports RACE in addition to Punycode if `--enable-extra-ace' > configure option is specified. This is migration purpose only. > > - idn.conf is incompatible with idnkit-1.0prX, so to upgrade from > idnkit-1.0prX, please do `make install install-config' to > overwrite previous configuration. > > - Actually, configuration file such as idn.conf is not required. > > Regards, > > -- > Yoshiro YONEYA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > aka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
