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Re: RFC: IDN support in getaddrinfo().
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Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>We obviously have code internally to map from and to UTF-8. These would
>>have to be used. They are a bit lower-level than iconv.
>
>
> Can you give a pointer? I couldn't find anything in the libc manual,
> but I guess they aren't exported.
This code isn't documented. Don't worry about this, I can take care of
this part.
> Do you have any opinion on the format of the external files? Text or
> binary? Platform dependent or independent binary? Export both
> Unicode NFKC and RFC 3454 tables, or just one of them?
Definitely binary data. During the glibc build a program can be
constructed (or better yet, make it a script) which construct the binary
data file. It's probably best to make it a DSO which symbol has no
function symbol (just the data symbols).
> This will likely take some time to implement, the tables are exported
> to several closely intertwined C variables, and they are accessed from
> many functions.
If you do it as a DSO there shouldn't be too much change. When opening,
assign the variable addresses in the DSO to global variables.
> Libidn is not a FSF-copyrighted package, but I can assign the libc
> patch to the FSF.
That will be necessary. Can somebody with the right form please send it
to Simon (Mark, Roland, Jakub, Andreas, ...)?
> punycode.*, copied from RFC 3492 (bis), with this license text:
>
> * Disclaimer and license: Regarding this entire document or any
> * portion of it (including the pseudocode and C code), the author
> * makes no guarantees and is not responsible for any damage resulting
> * from its use. The author grants irrevocable permission to anyone
> * to use, modify, and distribute it in any way that does not diminish
> * the rights of anyone else to use, modify, and distribute it,
> * provided that redistributed derivative works do not contain
> * misleading author or version information. Derivative works need
> * not be licensed under similar terms.
This is acceptable.
> nfkc.c, contain some functions based on functions in GLIB gutf8.c and
> gunidecomp.c. Some of them might not be needed, if I find
> replacements within libc. The license text:
>
> * Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Tom Tromey
> * Copyright (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.
No problem either.
> gen-unicode-tables.pl, also from GLIB:
>
> # Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Tom Tromey
> # Copyright (C) 2001 Red Hat Software
No problem. And we need to include the script.
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