TH IDN 2
SH NAME
utf2idn, idn2utf \- convert internationalized domain names to and from unicode
SH SYNOPSIS
B #include <u.h>
br
B #include <libc.h>
PP
B
int     utf2idn(char *name, char *buf, int nbuf);
PP
B
int     idn2utf(char *name, char *buf, int nbuf);
SH DESCRIPTION
These routines handle encoding and decoding of domain
names as specified by RFC5890.
PP
I Utf2idn
encodes the
SM UTF
string
I name
to
SM ASCII
internatlionalized domain name in
IR buf .
I Idn2utf
does the reverse, decoding the
SM ASCII
string
I name
back to
SM UTF
in
IR buf .
The maximum size of
I buf
is gived by
IR nbuf .
SH SOURCE
B /sys/src/libc/9sys/idn.c
SH "SEE ALSO"
B /lib/rfc/rfc5890
br
IR utf (6)
SH DIAGNOSTICS
The return value is the number of bytes (excluding the terminating NULL) in
I buf
or
B -1
on failure.