Marten Lehmann added the comment:
There's nice library called idna on PyPI doing idna2008:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/idna/0.1
I'd however prefer this standard encoding to be part of standard python.
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Marten Lehmann added the comment:
Which bug ID? Couldn't find it anywhere in the previous comments.
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Marten Lehmann added the comment:
Could you please tell me, in which exact release or commit this is resolved?
I'm using Python 3.3.0 on Ubuntu Precise and I noticed like the others, that
e.g. easy_install and pip are installed to venv/local/bin instead of venv/bin
and the site-pac
Marten Lehmann added the comment:
I found an interesting link about this issue:
http://www.unicode.org/faq/idn.html
I also checked a domain name of a client that ends with 'straße.de': IE,
Firefox and Chrome still use IDNA2003, Opera already does IDNA2008.
In IDNA2008 a lot of
Marten Lehmann added the comment:
IDNA2008 should be backwards compatible. I can try to explain it in a practical
example:
DENIC was the first registry that actually used IDNA2008 - at a time, where not
even libidn2 officially included the changes required for it. This was mainly
due to the
Marten Lehmann added the comment:
For the embedded Python examples, please prepend the following lines:
from __future__ import unicode_literals
name='müller.com'
So regarding interoperability: Usually you only use one implementation in your
code and hopefully the latest release, b
Marten Lehmann added the comment:
At least from the GNU people, two separate projects exists for this matter:
libidn, the original IDNA translation (http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/)
libidn2, the IDNA2008 translation
(http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/libidn2/manual/libidn2.html)
Btw
New submission from Marten Lehmann:
Since Python 2.3 the idna encoding is available for Internationalized Domain
Names. But the current encoding doesn't work according to the latest version of
the spec.
There is a new IDNA2008 specification (RFCs 5890-5894). Although I'm not very
