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GNU Libidn

This manual is for GNU Libidn (version 0.1.4, 15 January 2003), which is a library for internationalized string processing.

Copyright © 2002 Simon Josefsson.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being "A GNU Manual," and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License."

(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development."


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1 Introduction

GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep (with the Nameprep and Kerberos 5 profiles), Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names. It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

The library contains a generic Stringprep implementation (including Unicode 3.2 NFKC normalization, table mapping of characters, and Bidirectional Character handling), two Stringprep profiles; Nameprep (for IDN) and Kerberos5, as well as a Punycode and IDNA.

The Stringprep API consists of two main functions, one for converting data from the system's native representation into UTF-8, and one function to perform the Stringprep processing. Each stringprep profile has a corresponding CPP macro. Adding a new Stringprep profile for your application within the API is straightforward. The Punycode API consists of one encoding function and one decoding function. The IDNA API consists of the ToASCII and ToUnicode functions.

The library is currently used by forthcoming SASL and Kerberos libraries to process user names and passwords before they are input to cryptographic operations. It is also used by experimental code for domain name related purposes.

GNU Libidn is developed for the GNU/Linux system, but runs on over 20 Unix platforms (including Solaris, IRIX, AIX, and Tru64) and Windows.


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1.1 Getting Started

This manual documents the library programming interface. All functions and data types provided by the library are explained.

The reader is assumed to possess basic familiarity with internationalization concepts and network programming in C or C++.

This manual can be used in several ways. If read from the beginning to the end, it gives a good introduction into the library and how it can be used in an application. Forward references are included where necessary. Later on, the manual can be used as a reference manual to get just the information needed about any particular interface of the library. Experienced programmers might want to start looking at the examples at the end of the manual (see Examples), and then only read up those parts of the interface which are unclear.


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1.2 Features

This library might have a couple of advantages over other libraries doing a similar job.

It's Free Software
Anybody can use, modify, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
It's thread-safe
No global state is kept in the library.
It's portable
It should work on all Unix like operating systems, including Windows.


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1.3 Supported Platforms

Libidn has at some point in time been tested on the following platforms.

  1. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r0 (Woody)

    GCC 2.95.4 and GNU Make. This is the main development platform. alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu, alphaev6-unknown-linux-gnu, hppa64-unknown-linux-gnu, i686-pc-linux-gnu, ia64-unknown-linux-gnu.

  2. Tru64 UNIX

    Tru64 UNIX C compiler and Tru64 Make. alphaev68-dec-osf5.1.

  3. SuSE Linux 7.1

    GCC 2.96 and GNU Make. alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu.

  4. SuSE Linux 7.2a

    GCC 3.0 and GNU Make. ia64-unknown-linux-gnu.

  5. RedHat Linux 7.2

    GCC 2.96 and GNU Make. i686-pc-linux-gnu.

  6. RedHat Linux 8.0

    GCC 3.2 and GNU Make. i686-pc-linux-gnu.

  7. IRIX 6.5

    mips-sgi-irix6.5, MIPS C compiler, IRIX Make.

  8. AIX 4.3.2

    rs6000-ibm-aix4.3.2.0, IBM C for AIX compiler, AIX Make.

  9. Microsoft Windows 2000 (Cygwin)

    GCC 3.2, GNU make. i686-pc-cygwin

  10. HP-UX 11.11

    HP-UX C compiler and HP Make. hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11.

  11. SUN Solaris 2.8

    Sun WorkShop Compiler C 6.0 and SUN Make. sparc-sun-solaris2.8.

  12. NetBSD 1.6

    GCC 2.95.3 and GNU Make. alpha-unknown-netbsd1.6, i386-unknown-netbsdelf1.6.

  13. OpenBSD 3.1

    GCC 2.95.3 and GNU Make. i386-unknown-openbsd3.1.

  14. FreeBSD 4.7

    GCC 2.95.4 and GNU Make. alpha-unknown-freebsd4.7, i386-unknown-freebsd4.7.

If you use Libidn on, or port Libidn to, a new platform please report it to the author.


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1.4 Bug Reports

If you think you have found a bug in Libidn, please investigate it and report it.

Please make an effort to produce a self-contained report, with something definite that can be tested or debugged. Vague queries or piecemeal messages are difficult to act on and don't help the development effort.

If your bug report is good, we will do our best to help you to get a corrected version of the software; if the bug report is poor, we won't do anything about it (apart from asking you to send better bug reports).

If you think something in this manual is unclear, or downright incorrect, or if the language needs to be improved, please also send a note.

Send your bug report to:

bug-libidn@gnu.org


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2 Preparation

To use `Libidn, you have to perform some changes to your sources and the build system. The necessary changes are small and explained in the following sections. At the end of this chapter, it is described how the library is initialized, and how the requirements of the library are verified.

A faster way to find out how to adapt your application for use with `Libidn' may be to look at the examples at the end of this manual (see Examples).


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2.1 Header

The library contains a few independent parts, and each part export the interfaces (data types and functions) in a header file. You must include the appropriate header files in all programs using the library, either directly or through some other header file, like this:

     #include <stringprep.h>
     

The header files and the functions they define are categorized as follows:

stringprep.h
The low-level stringprep API entry point. Normal applications uses one specific stringprep profile, and should rather include the corresponding profile header file (see below). If you are writing an application that only makes use of the utility functions, including this header file may be more appropriate however.

The name space of the stringprep part of Libidn is stringprep* for function names, Stringprep* for data types and STRINGPREP_* for other symbols. In addition the same name prefixes with one prepended underscore are reserved for internal use and should never be used by an application.

stringprep_generic.h
The entry point to the generic tables specified in the stringprep specification. It is normally only needed by applications that want to define its own stringprep profile, based on the generic tables.

This header file uses the same namespace as the main stringprep.h header file.

stringprep_nameprep.h
The entry point to the nameprep profile of stringprep. This is the entry point used by applications needing low-level access to the stringprep profile used in IDN. Most applications requesting IDN functionality will want idna.h instead though.

This header file uses the same namespace as the main stringprep.h header file.

stringprep_kerberos5.h
The entry point to the experimental Kerberos 5 profile of stringprep.

This header file uses the same namespace as the main stringprep.h header file.

punycode.h
The entry point to Punycode encoding and decoding functions. Normally punycode is used via the idna.h interface, but some application may want to perform raw punycode operations.

The name space of the punycode part of Libidn is punycode_* for function names, Punycode* for data types and PUNYCODE_* for other symbols. In addition the same name prefixes with one prepended underscore are reserved for internal use and should never be used by an application.

idna.h
The entry point to the IDNA functions. This is the normal entry point for applications that need IDN functionality.

The name space of the IDNA part of Libidn is idna_* for function names, Idna* for data types and IDNA_* for other symbols. In addition the same name prefixes with one prepended underscore are reserved for internal use and should never be used by an application.


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2.2 Initialization

Libidn is stateless and does not need any initialization.


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2.3 Version Check

It is often desirable to check that the version of `Libidn' used is indeed one which fits all requirements. Even with binary compatibility new features may have been introduced but due to problem with the dynamic linker an old version is actually used. So you may want to check that the version is okay right after program startup.

const char * stringprep_check_version (const char * req_version) Function

req_version: Required version number, or NULL.

Check that the the version of the library is at minimum the requested one and return the version string; return NULL if the condition is not satisfied. If a NULL is passed to this function, no check is done, but the version string is simply returned.

See STRINGPREP_VERSION for a suitable req_version string.

Version string of run-time library, or NULL if the run-time library does not meet the required version number.

The normal way to use the function is to put something similar to the following first in your main():

       if (!stringprep_check_version (STRINGPREP_VERSION))
         {
           printf ("stringprep_check_version() failed:\n"
                   "Header file incompatible with shared library.\n");
           exit(1);
         }
     


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2.4 Building the source

If you want to compile a source file including e.g. the `idna.h' header file, you must make sure that the compiler can find it in the directory hierarchy. This is accomplished by adding the path to the directory in which the header file is located to the compilers include file search path (via the -I option).

However, the path to the include file is determined at the time the source is configured. To solve this problem, `Libidn' uses the external package pkg-config that knows the path to the include file and other configuration options. The options that need to be added to the compiler invocation at compile time are output by the --cflags option to pkg-config libidn. The following example shows how it can be used at the command line:

     gcc -c foo.c `pkg-config libidn --cflags`
     

Adding the output of pkg-config libidn --cflags to the compilers command line will ensure that the compiler can find e.g. the idna.h header file.

A similar problem occurs when linking the program with the library. Again, the compiler has to find the library files. For this to work, the path to the library files has to be added to the library search path (via the -L option). For this, the option --libs to pkg-config libidn can be used. For convenience, this option also outputs all other options that are required to link the program with the `libidn' libarary. The example shows how to link foo.o with the `libidn' library to a program foo.

     gcc -o foo foo.o `pkg-config libidn --libs`
     

Of course you can also combine both examples to a single command by specifying both options to pkg-config:

     gcc -o foo foo.c `pkg-config libidn --cflags --libs`
     


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3 Stringprep Functions

Stringprep describes a framework for preparing Unicode text strings in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world. The stringprep protocol is useful for protocol identifier values, company and personal names, internationalized domain names, and other text strings.

STRINGPREP_NO_NFKC Enumerated type of Stringprep_profile_flags
STRINGPREP_NO_NFKC disables the NFKC normalization, as well as selecting the non-NFKC case folding tables. Usually the profile specifies BIDI and NFKC settings.

STRINGPREP_NO_BIDI Enumerated type of Stringprep_profile_flags
STRINGPREP_NO_BIDI disables the BIDI step. Usually the profile specifies BIDI and NFKC settings.

STRINGPREP_NO_UNASSIGNED Enumerated type of Stringprep_profile_flags
STRINGPREP_NO_UNASSIGNED causes stringprep() abort with an error if string contains unassigned characters according to profile.

int stringprep (char * in, int maxlen, int flags, Stringprep_profile * profile) Function

in: input/ouput array with string to prepare.

maxlen: maximum length of input/output array.

flags: optional stringprep profile flags.

profile: pointer to stringprep profile to use.

Prepare the input UTF-8 string according to the stringprep profile. Normally application programmers use stringprep profile macros such as stringprep_nameprep(), stringprep_kerberos5() etc instead of calling this function directly.

Since the stringprep operation can expand the string, maxlen indicate how large the buffer holding the string is. The flags are one of Stringprep_profile_flags, or 0. The profile indicates processing details, see the profile header files, such as stringprep_generic.h and stringprep_nameprep.h for two examples. Your application can define new profiles, possibly re-using the generic stringprep tables that always will be part of the library. Note that you must convert strings entered in the systems locale into UTF-8 before using this function.

Returns 0 iff successful, or an error code.

unsigned long stringprep_utf8_to_unichar (const char * p) Function

p: a pointer to Unicode character encoded as UTF-8

Converts a sequence of bytes encoded as UTF-8 to a Unicode character. If p does not point to a valid UTF-8 encoded character, results are undefined.

the resulting character

int stringprep_unichar_to_utf8 (unsigned long c, char * outbuf) Function

c: a ISO10646 character code

outbuf: output buffer, must have at least 6 bytes of space. If NULL, the length will be computed and returned and nothing will be written to outbuf.

Converts a single character to UTF-8.

number of bytes written

unsigned long * stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 (const char * str, int len, int * items_written) Function

str: a UTF-8 encoded string

len: the maximum length of str to use. If len < 0, then the string is nul-terminated.

items_written: location to store the number of characters in the result, or NULL.

Convert a string from UTF-8 to a 32-bit fixed width representation as UCS-4, assuming valid UTF-8 input. This function does no error checking on the input.

a pointer to a newly allocated UCS-4 string. This value must be freed with free().

char * stringprep_ucs4_to_utf8 (const unsigned long * str, int len, int * items_read, int * items_written) Function

str: a UCS-4 encoded string

len: the maximum length of str to use. If len < 0, then the string is terminated with a 0 character.

items_read: location to store number of characters read read, or NULL.

items_written: location to store number of bytes written or NULL. The value here stored does not include the trailing 0 byte.

Convert a string from a 32-bit fixed width representation as UCS-4. to UTF-8. The result will be terminated with a 0 byte.

a pointer to a newly allocated UTF-8 string. This value must be freed with free(). If an error occurs, NULL will be returned and error set.

char * stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (const char * str, int len) Function

str: a UTF-8 encoded string.

len: length of str, in bytes, or -1 if str is nul-terminated.

Converts a string into canonical form, standardizing such issues as whether a character with an accent is represented as a base character and combining accent or as a single precomposed character. You should generally call g_utf8_normalize() before comparing two Unicode strings.

The normalization mode is NFKC (ALL COMPOSE). It standardizes differences that do not affect the text content, such as the above-mentioned accent representation. It standardizes the "compatibility" characters in Unicode, such as SUPERSCRIPT THREE to the standard forms (in this case DIGIT THREE). Formatting information may be lost but for most text operations such characters should be considered the same. It returns a result with composed forms rather than a maximally decomposed form.

a newly allocated string, that is the NFKC normalized form of str.

unsigned long * stringprep_ucs4_nfkc_normalize (unsigned long * str, int len) Function

str: a Unicode string.

len: length of str array, or -1 if str is nul-terminated.

Converts UCS4 string into UTF-8 and runs stringprep_utf4_nfkc_normalize().

a newly allocated Unicode string, that is the NFKC normalized form of str.

const char * stringprep_locale_charset ( void) Function

Return the character set used by the system locale. It will never return NULL, but use "ASCII" as a fallback.

char * stringprep_convert (const char * str, const char * to_codeset, const char * from_codeset) Function

str: input zero-terminated string.

to_codeset: name of destination character set.

from_codeset: name of origin character set, as used by str.

Convert the string from one character set to another using the system's iconv() function.

Returns newly allocated zero-terminated string which is str transcoded into to_codeset.

char * stringprep_locale_to_utf8 (const char * str) Function

str: input zero terminated string.

Convert string encoded in the locale's character set into UTF-8 by using stringprep_convert().

Returns newly allocated zero-terminated string which is str transcoded into UTF-8.

char * stringprep_utf8_to_locale (const char * str) Function

str: input zero terminated string.

Convert string encoded in UTF-8 into the locale's character set by using stringprep_convert().

Returns newly allocated zero-terminated string which is str transcoded into the locale's character set.

int stringprep_nameprep_no_unassigned (char * in, int maxlen) Function

in: input/ouput array with string to prepare.

maxlen: maximum length of input/output array.

Prepare the input UTF-8 string according to the nameprep profile. The AllowUnassigned flag is false, use stringprep_nameprep() for true AllowUnassigned. Returns 0 iff successful, or an error code.

int stringprep_kerberos5 (char * in, int maxlen) Function

in: input/ouput array with string to prepare.

maxlen: maximum length of input/output array.

Prepare the input UTF-8 string according to the draft Kerberos5 stringprep profile. Returns 0 iff successful, or an error code.

int stringprep_generic (char * in, int maxlen) Function

in: input/ouput array with string to prepare.

maxlen: maximum length of input/output array.

Prepare the input UTF-8 string according to a hypotetical "generic" stringprep profile. This is mostly used for debugging or when constructing new stringprep profiles. Returns 0 iff successful, or an error code.


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4 Punycode Functions

Punycode is a simple and efficient transfer encoding syntax designed for use with Internationalized Domain Names in Applications. It uniquely and reversibly transforms a Unicode string into an ASCII string. ASCII characters in the Unicode string are represented literally, and non-ASCII characters are represented by ASCII characters that are allowed in host name labels (letters, digits, and hyphens). This document defines a general algorithm called Bootstring that allows a string of basic code points to uniquely represent any string of code points drawn from a larger set. Punycode is an instance of Bootstring that uses particular parameter values specified by this document, appropriate for IDNA.

int punycode_encode (size_t input_length, const unsigned long input[], const unsigned char case_flags[], size_t * output_length, char output[]) Function

input_length: The input_length is the number of code points in the input.

output_length: The output_length is an in/out argument: the caller passes in the maximum number of code points that it can receive, and on successful return it will contain the number of code points actually output.

Converts Unicode to Punycode.

The return value can be any of the punycode_status values defined above except punycode_bad_input; if not punycode_success, then output_size and output might contain garbage.

int punycode_decode (size_t input_length, const char input[], size_t * output_length, unsigned long output[], unsigned char case_flags[]) Function

input_length: The input_length is the number of code points in the input.

output_length: The output_length is an in/out argument: the caller passes in the maximum number of code points that it can receive, and on successful return it will contain the actual number of code points output.

Converts Punycode to Unicode.

The return value can be any of the punycode_status values defined above; if not punycode_success, then output_length, output, and case_flags might contain garbage. On success, the decoder will never need to write an output_length greater than input_length, because of how the encoding is defined.


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5 IDNA Functions

Until now, there has been no standard method for domain names to use characters outside the ASCII repertoire. The IDNA document defines internationalized domain names (IDNs) and a mechanism called IDNA for handling them in a standard fashion. IDNs use characters drawn from a large repertoire (Unicode), but IDNA allows the non-ASCII characters to be represented using only the ASCII characters already allowed in so-called host names today. This backward-compatible representation is required in existing protocols like DNS, so that IDNs can be introduced with no changes to the existing infrastructure. IDNA is only meant for processing domain names, not free text.

int idna_to_ascii (const unsigned long * in, size_t inlen, char * out, int allowunassigned, int usestd3asciirules) Function

in: input array with unicode code points.

inlen: length of input array with unicode code points.

out: output zero terminated string that must have room for at least 63 characters plus the terminating zero.

allowunassigned: boolean value as per IDNA specification.

usestd3asciirules: boolean value as per IDNA specification.

The ToASCII operation takes a sequence of Unicode code points that make up one label and transforms it into a sequence of code points in the ASCII range (0..7F). If ToASCII succeeds, the original sequence and the resulting sequence are equivalent labels.

It is important to note that the ToASCII operation can fail. ToASCII fails if any step of it fails. If any step of the ToASCII operation fails on any label in a domain name, that domain name MUST NOT be used as an internationalized domain name. The method for deadling with this failure is application-specific.

The inputs to ToASCII are a sequence of code points, the AllowUnassigned flag, and the UseSTD3ASCIIRules flag. The output of ToASCII is either a sequence of ASCII code points or a failure condition.

ToASCII never alters a sequence of code points that are all in the ASCII range to begin with (although it could fail). Applying the ToASCII operation multiple times has exactly the same effect as applying it just once.

Returns 0 on success, or an error code.

int idna_to_unicode (const unsigned long * in, size_t inlen, unsigned long * out, size_t * outlen, int allowunassigned, int usestd3asciirules) Function

in: input array with unicode code points.

inlen: length of input array with unicode code points.

out: output array with unicode code points.

outlen: on input, maximum size of output array with unicode code points, on exit, actual size of output array with unicode code points.

allowunassigned: boolean value as per IDNA specification.

usestd3asciirules: boolean value as per IDNA specification.

The ToUnicode operation takes a sequence of Unicode code points that make up one label and returns a sequence of Unicode code points. If the input sequence is a label in ACE form, then the result is an equivalent internationalized label that is not in ACE form, otherwise the original sequence is returned unaltered.

ToUnicode never fails. If any step fails, then the original input sequence is returned immediately in that step.

The ToUnicode output never contains more code points than its input. Note that the number of octets needed to represent a sequence of code points depends on the particular character encoding used.

The inputs to ToUnicode are a sequence of code points, the AllowUnassigned flag, and the UseSTD3ASCIIRules flag. The output of ToUnicode is always a sequence of Unicode code points.

Returns error condition, but it must only be used for debugging purposes. The output buffer is always guaranteed to contain the correct data according to the specification (sans malloc induced errors). NB! This means that you normally ignore the return code from this function, as checking it means breaking the standard.

int idna_ucs4_to_ace (const unsigned long * input, char ** output) Function

input: zero terminated input Unicode string.

output: pointer to newly allocated output string.

Convert UCS-4 domain name to ASCII string. The AllowUnassigned flag is false and std3asciirules flag is false. The domain name may contain several labels, separated by dots. The output buffer must be deallocated by the caller.

Returns IDNA_SUCCESS on success, or error code.

int idna_utf8_to_ace (const char * input, char ** output) Function

input: zero terminated input UTF-8 string.

output: pointer to newly allocated output string.

Convert UTF-8 domain name to ASCII string. The AllowUnassigned flag is false and std3asciirules flag is false. The domain name may contain several labels, separated by dots. The output buffer must be deallocated by the caller.

Returns IDNA_SUCCESS on success, or error code.

int idna_locale_to_ace (const char * input, char ** output) Function

input: zero terminated input UTF-8 string.

output: pointer to newly allocated output string.

Convert domain name in the locale's encoding to ASCII string. The AllowUnassigned flag is false and std3asciirules flag is false. The domain name may contain several labels, separated by dots. The output buffer must be deallocated by the caller.

Returns IDNA_SUCCESS on success, or error code.

int idna_ucs4ace_to_ucs4 (const unsigned long * input, unsigned long ** output) Function

input: zero-terminated Unicode string.

output: pointer to newly allocated output Unicode string.

Convert possibly ACE encoded domain name in UCS-4 format into a UCS-4 string. The AllowUnassigned flag is false and std3asciirules flag is false. The domain name may contain several labels, separated by dots. The output buffer must be deallocated by the caller.

Returns IDNA_SUCCESS on success, or error code.

int idna_utf8ace_to_ucs4 (const char * input, unsigned long ** output) Function

input: zero-terminated UTF-8 string.

output: pointer to newly allocated output Unicode string.

Convert possibly ACE encoded domain name in UTF-8 format into a UCS-4 string. The AllowUnassigned flag is false and std3asciirules flag is false. The domain name may contain several labels, separated by dots. The output buffer must be deallocated by the caller.

Returns IDNA_SUCCESS on success, or error code.

int idna_utf8ace_to_utf8 (const char * input, char ** output) Function

input: zero-terminated UTF-8 string.

output: pointer to newly allocated output UTF-8 string.

Convert possibly ACE encoded domain name in UTF-8 format into a UTF-8 string. The AllowUnassigned flag is false and std3asciirules flag is false. The domain name may contain several labels, separated by dots. The output buffer must be deallocated by the caller.

Returns IDNA_SUCCESS on success, or error code.

int idna_utf8ace_to_locale (const char * input, char ** output) Function

input: zero-terminated UTF-8 string.

output: pointer to newly allocated output string encoded in the current locale's character set.

Convert possibly ACE encoded domain name in UTF-8 format into a string encoded in the current locale's character set. The AllowUnassigned flag is false and std3asciirules flag is false. The domain name may contain several labels, separated by dots. The output buffer must be deallocated by the caller.

Returns IDNA_SUCCESS on success, or error code.

int idna_localeace_to_locale (const char * input, char ** output) Function

input: zero-terminated string encoded in the current locale's character set.

output: pointer to newly allocated output string encoded in the current locale's character set.

Convert possibly ACE encoded domain name in the locale's character set into a string encoded in the current locale's character set. The AllowUnassigned flag is false and std3asciirules flag is false. The domain name may contain several labels, separated by dots. The output buffer must be deallocated by the caller.

Returns IDNA_SUCCESS on success, or error code.


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6 Examples

This chapter contains example code which illustrate how `Libidn' can be used when writing your own application.


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6.1 Example 1

This example demonstrates how the stringprep functions are used.


     /* example.c	Example code showing how to use stringprep().
      * Copyright (C) 2002  Simon Josefsson
      *
      * This file is part of GNU Libidn.
      *
      * GNU Libidn is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
      * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
      * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
      * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
      *
      * GNU Libidn is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
      * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
      * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
      * Lesser General Public License for more details.
      *
      * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
      * License along with GNU Libidn; if not, write to the Free Software
      * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
      *
      */
     
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include <stdlib.h>
     #include <string.h>
     #include <stringprep_nameprep.h>
     
     /*
      * Compiling using libtool and pkg-config is recommended:
      *
      * $ libtool cc -o example example.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libidn`
      * $ ./example
      * Input string encoded as `ISO-8859-1': ª
      * Before locale2utf8 (length 2): aa 0a
      * Before stringprep (length 3): c2 aa 0a
      * After stringprep (length 2): 61 0a
      * $
      *
      */
     
     int
     main (int argc, char *argv[])
     {
       char buf[BUFSIZ];
       char *p;
       int rc, i;
     
       printf ("Input string encoded as `%s': ", stringprep_locale_charset ());
       fflush (stdout);
       fgets (buf, BUFSIZ, stdin);
     
       printf ("Before locale2utf8 (length %d): ", strlen (buf));
       for (i = 0; i < strlen (buf); i++)
         printf ("%02x ", buf[i] & 0xFF);
       printf ("\n");
     
       p = stringprep_locale_to_utf8 (buf);
       if (p)
         {
           strcpy (buf, p);
           free (p);
         }
       else
         printf ("Could not convert string to UTF-8, continuing anyway...\n");
     
       printf ("Before stringprep (length %d): ", strlen (buf));
       for (i = 0; i < strlen (buf); i++)
         printf ("%02x ", buf[i] & 0xFF);
       printf ("\n");
     
       rc = stringprep (buf, BUFSIZ, 0, stringprep_nameprep);
       if (rc != STRINGPREP_OK)
         printf ("Stringprep failed with rc %d...\n", rc);
       else
         {
           printf ("After stringprep (length %d): ", strlen (buf));
           for (i = 0; i < strlen (buf); i++)
     	printf ("%02x ", buf[i] & 0xFF);
           printf ("\n");
         }
     
       return 0;
     }
     


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6.2 Example 2

This example demonstrates how the punycode functions are used.


     /* example2.c	Example code showing how to use punycode.
      * Copyright (C) 2002  Adam M. Costello
      * Copyright (C) 2002  Simon Josefsson
      *
      * This file is part of GNU Libidn.
      *
      * GNU Libidn is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
      * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
      * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
      * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
      *
      * GNU Libidn is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
      * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
      * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
      * Lesser General Public License for more details.
      *
      * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
      * License along with GNU Libidn; if not, write to the Free Software
      * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
      *
      */
     
     /*
      * This file is derived from from draft-ietf-idn-punycode-03.txt by
      * Adam M. Costello.
      *
      * Disclaimer and license: Regarding this entire document or any
      * portion of it (including the pseudocode and C code), the author
      * makes no guarantees and is not responsible for any damage resulting
      * from its use.  The author grants irrevocable permission to anyone
      * to use, modify, and distribute it in any way that does not diminish
      * the rights of anyone else to use, modify, and distribute it,
      * provided that redistributed derivative works do not contain
      * misleading author or version information.  Derivative works need
      * not be licensed under similar terms.
      *
      */
     
     #include <assert.h>
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include <stdlib.h>
     #include <string.h>
     
     #include "punycode.h"
     
     /* For testing, we'll just set some compile-time limits rather than */
     /* use malloc(), and set a compile-time option rather than using a  */
     /* command-line option.                                             */
     
     enum
     {
       unicode_max_length = 256,
       ace_max_length = 256
     };
     
     static void
     usage (char **argv)
     {
       fprintf (stderr,
     	   "\n"
     	   "%s -e reads code points and writes a Punycode string.\n"
     	   "%s -d reads a Punycode string and writes code points.\n"
     	   "\n"
     	   "Input and output are plain text in the native character set.\n"
     	   "Code points are in the form u+hex separated by whitespace.\n"
     	   "Although the specification allows Punycode strings to contain\n"
     	   "any characters from the ASCII repertoire, this test code\n"
     	   "supports only the printable characters, and needs the Punycode\n"
     	   "string to be followed by a newline.\n"
     	   "The case of the u in u+hex is the force-to-uppercase flag.\n",
     	   argv[0], argv[0]);
       exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
     }
     
     
     static void
     fail (const char *msg)
     {
       fputs (msg, stderr);
       exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
     }
     
     static const char too_big[] =
       "input or output is too large, recompile with larger limits\n";
     static const char invalid_input[] = "invalid input\n";
     static const char overflow[] = "arithmetic overflow\n";
     static const char io_error[] = "I/O error\n";
     
     
     /* The following string is used to convert printable */
     /* characters between ASCII and the native charset:  */
     
     static const char print_ascii[] =
       "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"
       "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"
       " !\"#$%&'()*+,-./"
       "0123456789:;<=>?"
       "\x40ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO"
       "PQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_" "`abcdefghijklmno" "pqrstuvwxyz{|}~\n";
     
     
     int
     main (int argc, char **argv)
     {
       int status;
       int r;
       unsigned int input_length, output_length, j;
       unsigned char case_flags[unicode_max_length];
     
       if (argc != 2)
         usage (argv);
       if (argv[1][0] != '-')
         usage (argv);
       if (argv[1][2] != 0)
         usage (argv);
     
       if (argv[1][1] == 'e')
         {
           unsigned long input[unicode_max_length];
           unsigned long codept;
           char output[ace_max_length + 1], uplus[3];
           int c;
     
           /* Read the input code points: */
     
           input_length = 0;
     
           for (;;)
     	{
     	  r = scanf ("%2s%lx", uplus, &codept);
     	  if (ferror (stdin))
     	    fail (io_error);
     	  if (r == EOF || r == 0)
     	    break;
     
     	  if (r != 2 || uplus[1] != '+' || codept > (unsigned long) -1)
     	    {
     	      fail (invalid_input);
     	    }
     
     	  if (input_length == unicode_max_length)
     	    fail (too_big);
     
     	  if (uplus[0] == 'u')
     	    case_flags[input_length] = 0;
     	  else if (uplus[0] == 'U')
     	    case_flags[input_length] = 1;
     	  else
     	    fail (invalid_input);
     
     	  input[input_length++] = codept;
     	}
     
           /* Encode: */
     
           output_length = ace_max_length;
           status = punycode_encode (input_length, input, case_flags,
     				&output_length, output);
           if (status == PUNYCODE_BAD_INPUT)
     	fail (invalid_input);
           if (status == PUNYCODE_BIG_OUTPUT)
     	fail (too_big);
           if (status == PUNYCODE_OVERFLOW)
     	fail (overflow);
           assert (status == PUNYCODE_SUCCESS);
     
           /* Convert to native charset and output: */
     
           for (j = 0; j < output_length; ++j)
     	{
     	  c = output[j];
     	  assert (c >= 0 && c <= 127);
     	  if (print_ascii[c] == 0)
     	    fail (invalid_input);
     	  output[j] = print_ascii[c];
     	}
     
           output[j] = 0;
           r = puts (output);
           if (r == EOF)
     	fail (io_error);
           return EXIT_SUCCESS;
         }
     
       if (argv[1][1] == 'd')
         {
           char input[ace_max_length + 2], *p, *pp;
           unsigned long output[unicode_max_length];
     
           /* Read the Punycode input string and convert to ASCII: */
     
           fgets (input, ace_max_length + 2, stdin);
           if (ferror (stdin))
     	fail (io_error);
           if (feof (stdin))
     	fail (invalid_input);
           input_length = strlen (input) - 1;
           if (input[input_length] != '\n')
     	fail (too_big);
           input[input_length] = 0;
     
           for (p = input; *p != 0; ++p)
     	{
     	  pp = strchr (print_ascii, *p);
     	  if (pp == 0)
     	    fail (invalid_input);
     	  *p = pp - print_ascii;
     	}
     
           /* Decode: */
     
           output_length = unicode_max_length;
           status = punycode_decode (input_length, input, &output_length,
     				output, case_flags);
           if (status == PUNYCODE_BAD_INPUT)
     	fail (invalid_input);
           if (status == PUNYCODE_BIG_OUTPUT)
     	fail (too_big);
           if (status == PUNYCODE_OVERFLOW)
     	fail (overflow);
           assert (status == PUNYCODE_SUCCESS);
     
           /* Output the result: */
     
           for (j = 0; j < output_length; ++j)
     	{
     	  r = printf ("%s+%04lX\n",
     		      case_flags[j] ? "U" : "u", (unsigned long) output[j]);
     	  if (r < 0)
     	    fail (io_error);
     	}
     
           return EXIT_SUCCESS;
         }
     
       usage (argv);
       return EXIT_SUCCESS;		/* not reached, but quiets compiler warning */
     
     }
     


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6.3 Example 3

This example demonstrates how the library is used to convert internationalized domain names into ASCII compatible names.


     /* example3.c	Example code showing how to use Libidn.
      * Copyright (C) 2002  Simon Josefsson
      *
      * This file is part of GNU Libidn.
      *
      * GNU Libidn is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
      * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
      * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
      * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
      *
      * GNU Libidn is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
      * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
      * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
      * Lesser General Public License for more details.
      *
      * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
      * License along with GNU Libidn; if not, write to the Free Software
      * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
      *
      */
     
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include <stdlib.h>
     #include <string.h>
     #include <stringprep.h> /* stringprep_locale_charset() */
     #include <idna.h> /* idna_locale_to_ace() */
     
     /*
      * Compiling using libtool and pkg-config is recommended:
      *
      * $ libtool cc -o example3 example3.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libidn`
      * $ ./example3
      * Input domain encoded as `ISO-8859-1': www.räksmörgåsª.example
      * Read string (length 23): 77 77 77 2e 72 e4 6b 73 6d f6 72 67 e5 73 aa 2e 65 78 61 6d 70 6c 65
      * ACE label (length 33): 'www.iesg--rksmrgsa-0zap8p.example'
      * 77 77 77 2e 69 65 73 67 2d 2d 72 6b 73 6d 72 67 73 61 2d 30 7a 61 70 38 70 2e 65 78 61 6d 70 6c 65
      * $
      *
      */
     
     int
     main (int argc, char *argv[])
     {
       char buf[BUFSIZ];
       char *p;
       int rc, i;
     
       printf ("Input domain encoded as `%s': ", stringprep_locale_charset ());
       fflush (stdout);
       fgets (buf, BUFSIZ, stdin);
       buf[strlen(buf)-1] = '\0';
     
       printf ("Read string (length %d): ", strlen (buf));
       for (i = 0; i < strlen (buf); i++)
         printf ("%02x ", buf[i] & 0xFF);
       printf ("\n");
     
       rc = idna_locale_to_ace (buf, &p);
       if (rc != IDNA_SUCCESS)
         {
           printf("ToASCII() failed... %d\n", rc);
           exit(1);
         }
     
       printf ("ACE label (length %d): '%s'\n", strlen (p), p);
       for (i = 0; i < strlen (p); i++)
         printf ("%02x ", p[i] & 0xFF);
       printf ("\n");
     
       free(p);
     
       return 0;
     }
     


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6.4 Example 4

This example demonstrates how the library is used to convert ASCII compatible names to internationalized domain names.


     /* example4.c	Example code showing how to use Libidn.
      * Copyright (C) 2002  Simon Josefsson
      *
      * This file is part of GNU Libidn.
      *
      * GNU Libidn is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
      * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
      * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
      * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
      *
      * GNU Libidn is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
      * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
      * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
      * Lesser General Public License for more details.
      *
      * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
      * License along with GNU Libidn; if not, write to the Free Software
      * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
      *
      */
     
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include <stdlib.h>
     #include <string.h>
     #include <stringprep.h> /* stringprep_locale_charset() */
     #include <idna.h> /* idna_localeace_to_locale() */
     
     /*
      * Compiling using libtool and pkg-config is recommended:
      *
      * $ libtool cc -o example4 example4.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libidn`
      * $ ./example4
      * Input domain encoded as `ISO-8859-1': www.iesg--rksmrgsa-0zap8p.example
      * Read string (length 33): 77 77 77 2e 69 65 73 67 2d 2d 72 6b 73 6d 72 67 73 61 2d 30 7a 61 70 38 70 2e 65 78 61 6d 70 6c 65
      * ACE label (length 23): 'www.räksmörgåsa.example'
      * 77 77 77 2e 72 e4 6b 73 6d f6 72 67 e5 73 61 2e 65 78 61 6d 70 6c 65
      * $
      *
      */
     
     int
     main (int argc, char *argv[])
     {
       char buf[BUFSIZ];
       char *p;
       int rc, i;
     
       printf ("Input domain encoded as `%s': ", stringprep_locale_charset ());
       fflush (stdout);
       fgets (buf, BUFSIZ, stdin);
       buf[strlen(buf)-1] = '\0';
     
       printf ("Read string (length %d): ", strlen (buf));
       for (i = 0; i < strlen (buf); i++)
         printf ("%02x ", buf[i] & 0xFF);
       printf ("\n");
     
       rc = idna_localeace_to_locale (buf, &p);
       if (rc != IDNA_SUCCESS)
         {
           printf("ToUnicode() failed... %d\n", rc);
           exit(1);
         }
     
       printf ("ACE label (length %d): '%s'\n", strlen (p), p);
       for (i = 0; i < strlen (p); i++)
         printf ("%02x ", p[i] & 0xFF);
       printf ("\n");
     
       free(p);
     
       return 0;
     }
     


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7 Acknowledgements

Simon Josefsson created the library autumn 2002 when he really should have been studying mathematics.

The punycode code was taken from the IETF IDN Punycode specification, by Adam M. Costello.

Some functions (see nfkc.c and toutf8.c) has been borrowed from GLib downloaded from www.gtk.org.


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B.1 GNU Free Documentation License

Version 1.1, March 2000
     Copyright © 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA
     
     Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
     of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
     
  1. PREAMBLE

    The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other written document free in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others.

    This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license designed for free software.

    We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free software, because free software needs free documentation: a free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals; it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.

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    A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with modifications and/or translated into another language.

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    It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document.

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  6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS

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B.1.1 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of the License in the document and put the following copyright and license notices just after the title page:

       Copyright (C)  year  your name.
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
       under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
       or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
       with the Invariant Sections being list their titles, with the
       Front-Cover Texts being list, and with the Back-Cover Texts
       being list.  A copy of the license is included in the section
       entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.
     

If you have no Invariant Sections, write "with no Invariant Sections" instead of saying which ones are invariant. If you have no Front-Cover Texts, write "no Front-Cover Texts" instead of "Front-Cover Texts being list"; likewise for Back-Cover Texts.

If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of free software license, such as the GNU General Public License, to permit their use in free software.


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