Re: Searching for IDN free software implementations (Perl and Java)

In the ICU 2.6 release, we are including an IDNA implementation for C,
if you can call into that. ICU is open source, under the X Licence:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/

Mark
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 08:08
Subject: [idn] Searching for IDN free software implementations (Perl
and Java)


> Hello,
>
> Since http://www.i-d-n.net/ is terribly outdated, I'm looking for
help
> here.
>
> We plan to register IDNs "soon" in ".fr". Our legacy software is in
> Perl and Java. I need IDN "free as in free speech, not free as in
free
> beer" implementations for both.
>
> For Perl, I could write a XS to the excellent GNU libidn or to
MDNkit
> but I hope someone else did it before the lazy guy I am. The
> implementation in <URL:http://www.imc.org/nameprep/> is quite
outdated
> and I wonder if I can reasonably use it?
>
> For Java, one (not me) could use the JNI to call GNU libidn but I
> would prefer a native Java solution, easing the deployment to
various
> platforms without recompilation.
>
> Any advice? ("Reprogram everything in Python" is a good advice but
> unrealistic, I'm afraid.)
>
>