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Bug 25455

Summary: idn (international domain name) tools
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: James Cloos <cloos>
Component: [OLD] LibraryAssignee: Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) <rphillips>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High    
Version: 1.4_rc4   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 41001    

Description James Cloos 2003-07-28 14:21:16 UTC
there are several packages available that provide tools and/or libs for
converting to and from rfc349[012] IDNs.

The following are all one of GPL, LGPL or BSD(ish?):

http://sv.gnu.org/projects/libidn (which requires
http://sv.gnu.org/projects/gengetopt to compile)

http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/idnkit/download/sources/idnkit-1.0-src.tar.gz

http://www.verisign.com/nds/naming/idn/IDNSDK-1.0.2.tgz

http://www.imc.org/idna/

(the next versions of icu will also have idn support)

gentoo should have at least one of those in portage; probably all three.


libidn (and gengetopt) are basic econf && emake && einstall packages.

idnkit as well (but check out configure --help)

IDNSDK is a java package....

there is also a python package in libidn's contrib dir.
Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-01 09:57:54 UTC
libidn is now in portage
Comment 2 Forza 2004-04-23 04:02:47 UTC
I am not sure this belongs to this "bug#. However it would be very nice if the BIND ebuild would enable the IDN support. Check bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48610
Comment 3 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-02-06 18:02:35 UTC
In the portage tree already.