Re: [idn] Searching for IDN free software implementations (Perl and Java)

["Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>]

In the ICU 2.6 release, we are including an IDNA implementation for C,
if you can call into that. ICU is open source, under the X Licence:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/

Mark
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 08:08
Subject: [idn] Searching for IDN free software implementations (Perl
and Java)


> Hello,
>
> Since http://www.i-d-n.net/ is terribly outdated, I'm looking for
help
> here.
>
> We plan to register IDNs "soon" in ".fr". Our legacy software is in
> Perl and Java. I need IDN "free as in free speech, not free as in
free
> beer" implementations for both.
>
> For Perl, I could write a XS to the excellent GNU libidn or to
MDNkit
> but I hope someone else did it before the lazy guy I am. The
> implementation in <URL:http://www.imc.org/nameprep/> is quite
outdated
> and I wonder if I can reasonably use it?
>
> For Java, one (not me) could use the JNI to call GNU libidn but I
> would prefer a native Java solution, easing the deployment to
various
> platforms without recompilation.
>
> Any advice? ("Reprogram everything in Python" is a good advice but
> unrealistic, I'm afraid.)
>
>