Idnkit

Jul 20, 2023

Library to handle internationalized domain names

The ‘idnkit’ is an open source, BSD-like licensed software that provides functionalities about Internationalized Domain Name processing standardized at IETF. Major features that idnkit provides are as follows.

* libidnkit
  Core library for IDN processing.
* libidnkitlite
  Light Weight library for IDN processing. UTF-8 only
* idnconv
  DNS zone / configuration file encoding converter.
* runidn / idn wrapper
  Dynamic link resolver library for UNIX / Windows.
* BIND 9 patch
  IDN enhancements for BIND 9 DNS lookup tools.


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