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diff --git a/libraries/perl-Net-LibIDN/README b/libraries/perl-Net-LibIDN/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e495139df4 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/perl-Net-LibIDN/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Net::LibIDN - Perl bindings for GNU Libidn + +Provides bindings for GNU Libidn, a C library for handling Internationalized +Domain Names according to IDNA (RFC 3490), in a way very much inspired by +Turbo Fredriksson's PHP-IDN. +There is currently no support for Perl's unicode capabilities (man +perlunicode). All input strings are assumed to be octet strings, all output +strings are generated as octet strings. Thus, if you require Perl's unicode +features, you will have to convert your strings manually. For example: + + use Encode; + use Data::Dumper; + print Dumper(Net::LibIDN::idn_to_unicode('xn--uro-j50a.com', 'utf-8')); + print Dumper(decode('utf-8', Net::LibIDN::idn_to_unicode('xn--uro-j50a.com', 'utf-8'))); |