#3518: IDNA2008 support by libidn2 usage in mutt
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Reporter: rsc | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: 2.0
Component: mutt | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Old description:
> At the moment, mutt only has IDNA2003 support by GNU libidn. As IDNA2003
> was updated, changed and revised by IDNA2008, there's now GNU libidn2.
> Unfortunately IDNA2003 and IDN2008 are very different, thus the new
> library is also very different. Nevertheless I would like to see IDNA2008
> support in mutt.
>
> As it is hard (and makes less to no sense) to support IDNA2003 and
> IDNA2008 in parallel, I would recommend to replace IDNA2003 by IDNA2008
> support, which means that the requirement in the end switches over from
> libidn to libidn2 simply.
>
> GNU libidn2 upstream is http://www.gnu.org/s/libidn/#libidn2, the latest
> version at the moment is 0.5.
New description:
At the moment, mutt only has IDNA2003 support by GNU libidn. As IDNA2003
was updated, changed and revised by IDNA2008, there's now GNU libidn2.
Unfortunately IDNA2003 and IDN2008 are very different, thus the new
library is also very different. Nevertheless I would like to see IDNA2008
support in mutt.
As it is hard (and makes less to no sense) to support IDNA2003 and
IDNA2008 in parallel, I would recommend to replace IDNA2003 by IDNA2008
support, which means that the requirement in the end switches over from
libidn to libidn2 simply.
GNU libidn2 upstream is http://www.gnu.org/s/libidn/#libidn2, the latest
version at the moment is 0.5.
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Comment (by kevin8t8):
Hi mmuzila,
Sorry for my delay in replying. Would you mind opening a pull request in
our gitlab project? Thank you!
-Kevin
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3518#comment:3>
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