Re: Support (lib)ICU for IDN

On 2023-01-15 10:36, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2023, Daniel Engberg via curl-users wrote:
> 
>> Would it be possible to consider adding ICU support for IDN? It's a 
>> well represented in many distributions and platforms in addition to 
>> utilized by many projects including libpsl so I think it would be a 
>> nice addition to curl.
> 
> But why? What benefits/features would that bring that curl doesn't
> already feature?

The main benefit would be less dependencies (libidn2 pulls at least in 
libunistring) while ICU is selfcontained. It would also be a nice 
addition for package repos if you could possibly reduce amout of 
libraries used overall and potentially build dependencies too. From what 
I can tell ICUs license also matches curls license more closely too if 
that's of interest.

Best regards,
Daniel
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