Re: [Evolution-hackers] IDN support for evolution

[Suresh Chandrasekharan <Suresh Chandrasekharan Eng Sun COM>]

Hi Michael,

The related RFCs are RFC3490, 3491, 3492, and 3454. The entire email
address internationalization is being also standardized at IETF as
Internationalized Mailing Address for Applciations (IMAA) and it uses
the IDNA at the hostname and domain name portion of the address. More details
are being worked out for the IMAA; the initial focus on Evolution IDN support 
should on the hostnames not on the email address by the way.

Regards,
Suresh


>
>Hi Suresh,
>
>Sounds interesting - obviously this work must be targetted on the
>development branch.
>
>Do you have any pointers to RFC's and other documentation?
>
>Does this also cover email addressing?
>
>Cheers,
> Michael
>
>On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:00, Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> 	We are planning to provide IDN (International Domain Names) support for 
>> Evolution. With this support Evolution will be able to process non-ASCII 
>> charcaters at domain name, hostname, URI and so on. The effect will be the 
user 
>> will be able to type in these info in their native language in Evolution.
>> 	
>> 	For this we need to deliver IDN library too along with evolution, or 
>> Evolution should take advantage of the IDN support available in a platform. 
We 
>> are looking into the second option of hooking onto the already existing 
platform 
>> support for IDN.
>> 	
>>  Currently there are many opensource implementations for IDN. We have done an 
>> indepth comparison of  IDNKIT 1.0 from JPNIC, IDN SDK 1.0.1 from VeriSign 
Inc., 
>> and GNU IDN library 0.2.0. and figured out that IDNKIT 1.0 from JPNIC
>> 	
>> 	 http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/idnkit/download/
>> 	
>> 	which feature BSD Open Source License like license is better of the lot 
>> interms of the interfaces it provide and coding discipline and also future 
>> extensibility.
>> 	
>> 	We are planning to enhance Evolution with support for interfaces for the 
>> above library.
>> 	
>> 	Pl provide your feedback for this proposed enhancement for Evolution.
>> 	
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Suresh
>> 
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Thanks & Regards,
Suresh