On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:24:46 +0200 Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> wrote:
> Christian Hammers <chamm...@netcologne.de> writes: > > > Package: libidn11 > > Version: 1.15-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Quoting > > http://www.denic.de/en/domains/internationalized-domain-names/sharp-s.html > > "Since 4 August 2010, the IDNAbis standard allows the Latin small letter > > sharp s – > > also known as "Eszett" or "sharp s" ("ß") – to be used as part of a domain > > name" > > > > The IDN library (1.15 as well as 1.22 from unstable) still converts it to > > "ss": > > > > $ idn --quiet --idna-to-ascii baß.de > > bass.de > > > > Changing the behaviour will of course break backwards compatibility but > > as the compatibility was broken by the IDNA standard itself, the library > > should continue to follow the standard (at least in methods that have > > "idna" in their name). > > Hi Christian. libidn.so implements the old IDNA standard, retroactively > called IDNA2003. > > The page above talks about IDNAbis, or usually called IDNA2008, which > libidn.so and idn don't support. IDNA2008 and IDNA2003 are not > compatible. > > The GNU Libidn project contains another library and tool, libidn2 and > idn2, which implements the IDNA2008 algorithm. It works like this: > > jas@latte:~$ idn2 baß.de > xn--ba-hia.de > jas@latte:~$ > > So I believe your request should be re-categorised as 1) a request to > package libidn2, and 2) modify any applications you are concerned with > to support it. If you just want to do the conversions on the command > line, 1) will suffice. > > I'll see if I can get some packaging up and running... I would rather have libidn2 treated just as an update to libidn11 i.e. package "idn (2.0)", "libidn-dev (2.0)" and "libidn20 (2.0)" that replace the current /usr/bin/idn tool in the next Debian release. (or libidn2 if the linker figures correctly that it is newer than libidn11) bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110714105944.47c08...@sys-251.netcologne.de
