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

At 1:35 PM +0200 5/14/03, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>Perl) Paul Hoffman's test tool is written in Perl, and free. It is not
>a ready-to-use, shrinkwrapped library (for instance, there are
>hardcoded paths in the code). Requires Perl >=
>5.8. <URL:http://www.imc.org/idna/>

Right: it's just a test tool. Anyone familiar with Perl will see lots 
of places where it is quite inefficient.

>For Perl, we'll try to develop an XS interface, allowing to use GNU
>libidn, written in C.

That would be a great service to the IDN community! If you do it, I'm 
happy to put it up on the IMC site for people to test with.

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