RFC: IDN support in getaddrinfo().

[Simon Josefsson]

Continuing an old thread regarding support for Internationalized
Domain Names (IDN) in glibc, prompted by the adaption of my glibc
patches by developers from some Linux distributions, I'd like to
formalize my ideas in a proposal for extending the getaddrinfo() API.

I appreciate comments on the following document from people familiar
with the getaddrinfo API, and people with insight in the POSIX
standardization process.  Is something like this suitable for
standardization?  For inclusion in glibc?

Thoughts about alternative approaches, such as extending hostname(),
or a wchar_t API, are also welcome.

Thanks,
Simon

PS. The document lives in
<http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/libidn/libidn/libc/getaddrinfo-idn.txt?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup>.

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