GNU Libidn

GNU Libidn - Internationalized string preparation library

Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep (with the Nameprep and Kerberos 5 profiles), Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by +the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names.

The library contains a generic Stringprep implementation (including Unicode 3.2 NFKC normalization, table mapping of characters, and Bidirectional Character handling), two Stringprep profiles; Nameprep (for IDN) and Kerberos5, as well as a Punycode and IDNA.

This project was formerly known as 'libstringprep.'

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/
Source tarball	ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libidn/libidn-0.5.2.tar.gz
Source information	ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libidn/

Version 0.5.2 (alpha) released on 2004-07-14

Licensed under LGPL.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User reference maunal available from http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/manual/

Support contacts

Bug List	<bug-libidn@gnu.org>
Support	Paid extension/consulting available from http://josefsson.org/

Project contacts

Maintainers	Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Developers	Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>

Related information

Source repository	http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=libidn :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/libidn module "libidn"
Interfaces	library
Source languages	C
Supported languages	C, C++

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-11-12
Entry compiled by	Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>

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