Re: idn2 failed to convert

[Simon Josefsson]

Tim Ruehsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks for your answers.
>
>> > BTW: I tried that libidn conversion page
>> > (http://josefsson.org/idn.php/...) with the above domain and it doesn't
>> > seem to work:
>> > 
>> > Output
>> > 
>> > $ CHARSET='UTF-8' idn --usestd3asciirules --punycode-encode '.com' 2>&1
>> > .com-
>> > $
>> 
>> That's the libidn IDNA2003 implementation, it supports CHARSET.  The
>> libidn2 IDNA2008 implementation doesn't.
>
> It is not about CHARSET, it looks like special characters from the input 
> form's text field are ignored. It is --puny-encode '.com' - all special chars 
> are stripped.

Right -- the website script was broken.  It should be fixed now.

/Simon