RE: Bulk UTF-8 / punycode Tool

VeriSign's IDN SDK has a nice set of command line utilities in 
both c and Java which can handle this, including pre-built 
binaries for Windows which don't require a Unix emulation layer.

http://www.verisign.com/nds/naming/idn/sdk.html 

Regards,
Jim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Adam M. Costello
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:59 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [idn] Bulk UTF-8 / punycode Tool
> 
> Georg Ochsner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > do you know an online tool or better windows programm yet to
> > automatically convert multiple strings containing german umlauts
> > (UTF-8) into punycode at once?
> 
> The idn program that comes with GNU libidn can do that:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/
> 
> It's a command-line utility.  If you want to run it on a Windows
> machine, it can probably be built using Cygwin (but don't ask 
> me how--I
> know nothing about Windows).
> 
> By the way, you need to consider whether you just want the Punycode
> encode operation, or the entire ToASCII operation (including Nameprep
> etc).  The idn program can do either.
> 
> AMC
> 
> 
>