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Re: [bug-inetutils] Internationalized domain names teaser
- From: Marco d'Itri <md at Linux dot IT>
- To: Simon Josefsson <jas at extundo dot com>
- Cc: bug-inetutils at gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:29:41 +0100
- Subject: Re: [bug-inetutils] Internationalized domain names teaser
- References: <iluel7n6bmu.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
On Jan 08, Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
>This post is intended to start discussion on how to properly support
>IDNs on the GNU system. Defining the API for a modified
>gethostbyname() function that acts as a IDN enabled wrapper around the
>normal gethostbyname() could be one outcome of the discussion.
Do not waste your time with gethostbyname(). Until a POSIX API will be
defined, a good easy solution would probably be to add a flag to
getaddrinfo().
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ciao,
Marco