Hi there. I have finally got this working. I would appreciate it a great deal if someone could tell me if I'm doing this in vain, as I haven't gotten a single reply as of yet. Do MandrakeSoft have any interested in IDN? I think this would be a killer for Mandrake 10.
FYI: Sweden is the first country in Europe with its top level dot SE TLD "NIC-SE" to implement IDN, read about it here: http://www.nic.se/english/ Well anyway, here's my glibc packages with libidn applied (with a little help from Simon Josefsson, the author of libidn). Here's the binary RPM's: http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/glibc-2.3.2-16mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/ldconfig-2.3.2-16mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/glibc-devel-2.3.2-16mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/glibc-static-devel-2.3.2-16mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/nscd-2.3.2-16mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/glibc-utils-2.3.2-16mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/glibc-profile-2.3.2-16mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/timezone-2.3.2-16mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/glibc-i18ndata-2.3.2-16mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/glibc-doc-2.3.2-16mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/glibc-doc-pdf-2.3.2-16mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/glibc-debug-2.3.2-16mdk.i586.rpm Here's the source RPM: http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/SRPMS/glibc-2.3.2-16mdk.src.rpm Here's my GnuPG Public Key: http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/.oden.eriksson.gpg Here's the patches and sources: http://josefsson.org/libidn/releases/libidn-0.3.2.tar.gz http://josefsson.org/libidn/releases/libidn-0.3.2.tar.gz.asc http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/SOURCES/glibc-2.3.2-libidn-0.3.2.diff.bz2 http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/SOURCES/glibc.spec.diff http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/SOURCES/glibc.spec Cheers.