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GNU Libidn - Internationalized string preparation library

Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep (with the Nameprep and Kerberos 5 profiles), Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by +the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names.

The library contains a generic Stringprep implementation (including Unicode 3.2 NFKC normalization, table mapping of characters, and Bidirectional Character handling), two Stringprep profiles; Nameprep (for IDN) and Kerberos5, as well as a Punycode and IDNA.

This project was formerly known as 'libstringprep.'



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/
Source tarballftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libidn/libidn-0.5.2.tar.gz
Source informationftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libidn/
Version 0.5.2 (alpha) released on 2004-07-14
Licensed under LGPL.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User reference maunal available from http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/manual/
Support contacts

Bug List<bug-libidn@gnu.org>
SupportPaid extension/consulting available from http://josefsson.org/

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repositoryhttp://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=libidn :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/libidn module "libidn"
Interfaceslibrary
Source languagesC
Supported languagesC, C++

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-11-12
Entry compiled bySimon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>

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