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Bug 116046 - Need function to decode IDN (international domain names)
Need function to decode IDN (international domain names)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: URI handling
2.13.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: later
Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 313971
 
 
Reported: 2003-06-26 19:02 UTC by Christian Persch
Modified: 2008-09-06 18:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Christian Persch 2003-06-26 19:02:06 UTC 
RFC 3490 [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3490.txt] specifies internationalised
domain names.

While the application can handle those domain names internally in their
encoded (ascii-only) form if it so choses, the domain names presented to
the user should always be in the decoded form.

Therefore functions analogous to gnome_vfs_[un]escape_string are needed for
en/decoding those domain names.
Comment 1 Christophe Fergeau 2003-07-10 11:57:38 UTC 
I came across this lib while reading some news on KDE boasting IDN
support in Konqueror: http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/ (KDE is
using it)
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2005-09-16 15:01:59 UTC 
*** Bug 313971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Christian Neumair 2006-01-06 17:38:42 UTC 
Milestoning to future.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2008-09-06 18:54:16 UTC 
gnome-vfs has been deprecated and superseded by gio/gvfs since GNOME 2.22, hence mass-closing many of the gnome-vfs requests/bug reports. This means that gnome-vfs is NOT actively maintained anymore, however patches are still welcome.

If your reported issue is still valid for gio/gvfs, please feel free to file a bug report against glib/gio or gvfs.

@Bugzilla mail recipients: query for
      gnome-vfs-mass-close
to get rid of this notification noise all together.


General further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS 
Reasons behind this decision are listed at http://www.mail-archive.com/gnome-vfs-list@gnome.org/msg00899.html