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LibIDN(3)             User Contributed Perl Documentation            LibIDN(3)

NAME
       Net::LibIDN - Perl bindings for GNU Libidn
SYNOPSIS
         use Net::LibIDN ':all';
         idn_to_ascii("Raeksmoergaas.Josefsson.ORG") eq
           idn_to_ascii(idn_to_unicode("xn--rksmrgs-5wao1o.josefsson.org"));
         idn_prep_name("LibUeDN") eq "libuedn";
         idn_punycode_encode("kistenmoehre") eq
           idn_punycode_encode(idn_punycode_decode("kistenmhre-kcb"));
         my $errpos;
         tld_check("merle.se", $errpos) eq undef;
           $errpos == 1;
         tld_get("mainbase.mars") eq "mars";
         my $hashref = Net::LibIDN::tld_get_table("de");
         print "$hashref->{version}\n";
         foreach (@{$hashref->{valid}})
         {
           print "Unicode range from ".$_->{start}." to ".$_->{end}."\n";
         }
DESCRIPTION
       Provides bindings for GNU Libidn, a C library for handling
       Internationalized Domain Names according to IDNA (RFC 3490), in a way
       very much inspired by Turbo Fredriksson's PHP-IDN.
   Functions
       Net::LibIDN::idn_to_ascii($clear_hostname, [$charset, [$flags]]);
           Converts $clear_hostname which might contain characters outside the
           range allowed in DNS names, to IDNA ACE. If $charset is specified,
           treats string as being encoded in it, otherwise assumes it is
           ISO-8859-1 encoded. If flag IDNA_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED is set in $flags,
           accepts also unassigned Unicode characters, if
           IDNA_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES is set, accepts only ASCII LDH characters
           (letter-digit-hyphen). Flags can be combined with ||. Returns
           result of conversion or undef on error.
       Net::LibIDN::idn_to_unicode($idn_hostname, [$charset, [$flags]]);
           Converts ASCII $idn_hostname, which might be IDNA ACE encoded, into
           the decoded form in $charset or ISO-8859-1. Flags are interpreted
           as above. Returns result of conversion or undef on error.
       Net::LibIDN::idn_punycode_encode($string, [$charset]);
           Encodes $string into "punycode" (RFC 3492). If $charset is present,
           treats $string as being in $charset, otherwise uses ISO-8859-1.
           Returns result of conversion or undef on error.
       Net::LibIDN::idn_punycode_decode($string, [$charset]);
           Decodes $string from "punycode" (RFC 3492). If $charset is present,
           result is converted to $charset, otherwise it is converted to
           ISO-8859-1. Returns result of conversion or undef on error.
       Net::LibIDN::idn_prep_name($string, [$charset]);
       Net::LibIDN::idn_prep_kerberos5($string, [$charset]);
       Net::LibIDN::idn_prep_node($string, [$charset]);
       Net::LibIDN::idn_prep_resource($string, [$charset]);
       Net::LibIDN::idn_prep_plain($string, [$charset]);
       Net::LibIDN::idn_prep_trace($string, [$charset]);
       Net::LibIDN::idn_prep_sasl($string, [$charset]);
       Net::LibIDN::idn_prep_iscsi($string, [$charset]);
           Performs "stringprep" (RFC 3454) on $string according to the named
           profile (e.g. *_name -> "nameprep" (RFC 3491)).  If $charset is
           present, converts from and to this charset before and after the
           operation respectively. Returns result string, or undef on error.
       Net::LibIDN::tdl_check($string, $errpos, [$charset, [$tld]]);
           Checks whether or not $string conforms to the restrictions on the
           sets of valid characters defined by TLD authorities around the
           World. Treats $string as a hostname if $tld is not present,
           determining the TLD from the hostname. If $tld is present, uses the
           restrictions defined by the parties responsible for TLD $tld.
           $charset may be used to specify the character set the $string is
           in. Should an invalid character be detected, returns 0 and the
           0-based position of the offending character in $errpos. In case of
           other failure conditions, $errpos is not touched, and undef is
           returned. Should $string conform to the TLD restrictions, 1 is
           returned.
       Net::LibIDN::tld_get($hostname);
           Returns top level domain of $hostname, or undef if an error occurs
           or if no top level domain was found.
       Net::LibIDN::tld_get_table($tld);
           Retrieves a hash reference with the TLD restriction info of given
           TLD $tld, or undef if $tld is not found. The hash ref contains the
           following fields:
           o   $h->{name} ... name of TLD
           o   $h->{version} ... version string of this restriction table
           o   $h->{nvalid} ... number of Unicode intervals
           o   $h->{valid} ...  [ {start => number, end => number}, ...] ...
               Unicode intervals
   Limitations
       There is currently no support for Perl's unicode capabilities (man
       perlunicode).  All input strings are assumed to be octet strings, all
       output strings are generated as octet strings. Thus, if you require
       Perl's unicode features, you will have to convert your strings
       manually. For example:
           use Encode;
           use Data::Dumper;
           print Dumper(Net::LibIDN::idn_to_unicode('xn--uro-j50a.com',
           'utf-8'));
           print Dumper(decode('utf-8',
           Net::LibIDN::idn_to_unicode('xn--uro-j50a.com', 'utf-8')));
AUTHOR
       Thomas Jacob, http://internet24.de
SEE ALSO
       perl(1), RFC 3454, RFC 3490-3492, http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn.

perl v5.16.3                      2014-06-09                         LibIDN(3)