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[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 <yone@po.ntts.co.jp>
aka <yone@nic.ad.jp>