Fwd: "International Domain Names" support in KDE

[Thiago Macieira]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
>Marc.Mutz at uni-bielefeld.de (Marc Mutz) writes:
>> If you are talking about GNU's libidn, I'd advise against that. It would
>> duplicate _a lot_ of unicode tables that are already in Qt.
>
>(Disclaimer: I have an interest in libidn)
>
>Using Unicode tables from QT would likely violate the IDN
>specifications, either directly or down the road, e.g.:
>
[snip]
>Using a specific library for IDN, instead of QT, guarantees that the
>proper Unicode tables for IDN purposes are used.  According to
><http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/unicode.html> it seems QT references
>Unicode 3.0.1.  Although the specifications only says "later versions
>than 3.2", using earlier versions would cause similar problems.

Indeed that is the case. We may not rely on Qt's tables because we don't know 
what is contained in them. And we need the "additional folding" rules and a 
couple of others that aren't there anyways.

We've more or less settled down for using the implementation in libidn or 
maybe a similar library (it seems there is one from JPNIC and one from 
Verisign). At the moment, we're developing KDE with libidn and I found in 
your library the very functions I wanted.

The resolver part of the code is more or less settled. I wonder how support 
goes in the URL part now...

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