On 01/15/2014 01:41 AM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > > The point (or the dumb question, forgive me for not knowing much about > this) is: although it is easy to see "whois" is linked to libidn, I > cannot notice any difference with or without. Would you an example, > please? With an example, I would come to first above: being useful, > should it not be recommended? > > $ ldd /usr/bin/whois | grep libidn > libidn.so.11 => /usr/lib/libidn.so.11 (0xb76f1000) > > $ scanelf -F "%f: %n" /usr/bin/whois > FILE NEEDED > whois: libidn.so.11,libc.so.6 > > $ diff whois-google.com-before-idn.log whois-google.com-after-idn.log > 266c266 > < >>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:15:54 UTC <<< > --- >>>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:20:27 UTC <<<
For example: whois кыргызстан.icom.museum without libidn gives: % The selected character encoding "US-ASCII" is not able to represent And with libidn: % Object "xn--80afmksoji0fc.icom.museum" NOT FOUND. -- "LEGO won't be ready for the average user until it comes pre-assembled, in a single unified look, and glued together so it doesn't come apart." -- Iranon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
