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Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: lgpl
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Package: Internationalized Domain Names Library
System name: libidn
Type: GNU

Description:
Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep/Nameprep, Punycode and IDNA 
specifications defined by the Internationalized Domain Names IETF working group 
to implement internationalized domain names.  It is licensed under the GNU 
Lesser General Public License.

The library contains a generic Stringprep implementation (with Unicode 3.2 NFKC 
normalization, table mapping of characters, and the Bidirectional Character 
handling), and currently two Stringprep profiles; Nameprep (for IDN) and 
Kerberos5.  The library also implements Punycode, and the low-level IDNA 
operations.  A high-level
API for handling internationalized domain names is being developed.

The Stringprep API consists of two main functions, one for converting data from 
the system\'s native representation into UTF-8, and one function to perform the 
Stringprep processing.  Each stringprep profile has a corresponding CPP macro.  
Adding a new Stringprep for your application is straightforward. The Punycode 
API consists of one encoding function and one decoding function.  The IDNA API 
consists of the ToASCII and ToUnicode functions.

The library is currently used by forthcoming SASL and Kerberos libraries to 
process user names and passwords before they are input to cryptographic 
operations.  It is also used by experimental code for domain name related 
purposes.

Libidn is developed for the GNU/Linux system, but runs on over 20 Unix 
platforms (including Linux, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, and Tru64) and Windows.

The project page of the library is available at:
http://www.josefsson.org/libstringprep/

For more information see:
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idn-charter.html
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-stringprep-07.txt
http://www.i-d-n.net/


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