Max,
On 23 Nov 2016, at 14:34, Max Leske <maxleske@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi (Sven),
Zinc canât currently handle unicode domain names (e.g. http://üni.ch). Are there any plans to implement punycode / IDNA conversion for Zinc? Or is there an explicit reason not to support it? I see that #parseHostPort: expects the host portion to be percent escaped, what is the use case for this? I have never seen a percent escaped host portion. Usually the host portion is either pure ASCII, unicode or punycode (in my experience at least).
Just curious, as I just added IDNA conversion to one of our applications (I just let python perform the conversion: https://docs.python.org/2/library/codecs.html#module-encodings.idna).
Cheers, Max
Yes, that would be nice to have. Just for future reference, we are talking about the following (IDN(A)): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490 https://www.charset.org/punycode Normal DNS hostnames are ASCII only (or used to be like that anyway), that is why it is (currently) implemented like that. Sven