Sounds like a logical addition to the codec project. Also, the IETF draft contains a sample implementation in C, it should be easy to convert this over to Java.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-punycode-03.txt -------- Tim O'Brien Transolutions, Inc. W 847-574-2143 M 847-863-7045 > -----Original Message----- > From: Ola Berg [mailto:ola.berg@;ports.se] > Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 3:06 AM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Handling text encodings > > > I am about to develope punycode and race converters at work > (both are mechanisms for representing Unicode as ASCII back > and forth, used fx in multilingual domain names such as > "bärs-och-öl.org"), which gave me this thought: > > Text codecing is a pretty common task (commons net, Tomcat > etc etc). Isn't there room for a common mechanism? > > And BTW, if anyone has done (or know of) punycode and/or race > codecs, maybe there is room for cooperation? I am > investigating, and just found some example code from a > Unicode.org meeting. > > /Ó > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:commons-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
