Re: idnkit-1.0 released

BTW, the next version of ICU will contain an IDNA implementation. One of our
engineers also put together an on-line demonstration that maps back and
forth, at:

http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/idnademo

Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Yoshiro YONEYA" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 23:52
Subject: [idn] idnkit-1.0 released


> Hi,
>
> Today, JPNIC released idnkit-1.0 which is fully compliant to IDN RFCs.
> You can obtain idnkit-1.0 from following URL:
>
>     http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/idnkit/download/
>
> The idnkit-1.0 is a bsd-like licensed open source free software, and
> its major features are:
>
>   - provides IDN <--> Punycode converter named `idnconv'
>     It will help system administrators who manage IDN in zone files
>     and / or Web configuration files.
>
>   - provides IDNA C programming APIs named `libidnkit' and `libidnkitlite'
>     They will help software programmers who are going to develop IDNA
>     compliant products.
>     The difference between `libidnkit' and `libidnkitlite' is,
>     `libidnkit' can handle many charsets and encodings using `iconv'
>     while `libidnkitlite' can handle only UTF-8.
>
> For users mDNkit-2.X/idnkit-1.0prX:
>
>   - Supports Unicode 3.2 only.  Unicode 3.0.1 and 3.1 are no longer
>     supported.  NFKC table size is significantly reduced.
>
>   - idnkit provides mDNkit compatible APIs if `--enable-mdnkit-compat'
>     configure option is specified.
>
>   - idnkit supports RACE in addition to Punycode if `--enable-extra-ace'
>     configure option is specified. This is migration purpose only.
>
>   - idn.conf is incompatible with idnkit-1.0prX, so to upgrade from
>     idnkit-1.0prX, please do `make install install-config' to
>     overwrite previous configuration.
>
>   - Actually, configuration file such as idn.conf is not required.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Yoshiro YONEYA <[email protected]>
>            aka <[email protected]>
>
>