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

At 5:08 PM +0200 5/13/03, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>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 is quite outdated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?

No, and I thought I had removed it a while ago. I have now. Please 
see <http://www.imc.org/idna/>. All the IMC-created Perl code there 
is free as in speech and beer. It relies on charlint.pl, the W3C's 
Perl-based normalizer that Martin Dürst created; that has a separate 
license.

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