idn
(1)
Name
idn - Internationalized Domain Names command line tool
Synopsis
idn [OPTION]... [STRINGS]...
Description
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NAME
idn - Internationalized Domain Names command line tool
SYNOPSIS
idn [OPTION]... [STRINGS]...
DESCRIPTION
Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) convert STRINGS, or
standard input.
Command line interface to the internationalized domain name
library.
All strings are expected to be encoded in the preferred
charset used by your locale. Use `--debug' to find out what
this charset is. You can override the charset used by set-
ting environment variable CHARSET.
To process a string that starts with `-', for example
`-foo', use `--' to signal the end of parameters, as in `idn
--quiet -a -- -foo'.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short
options too.
-h, --help
Print help and exit
-V, --version
Print version and exit
-s, --stringprep
Prepare string according to nameprep profile
-d, --punycode-decode
Decode Punycode
-e, --punycode-encode
Encode Punycode
-a, --idna-to-ascii
Convert to ACE according to IDNA (default mode)
-u, --idna-to-unicode
Convert from ACE according to IDNA
--allow-unassigned
Toggle IDNA AllowUnassigned flag (default off)
--usestd3asciirules
Toggle IDNA UseSTD3ASCIIRules flag (default off)
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--no-tld
Don't check string for TLD specific rules Only for
--idna-to-ascii and --idna-to-unicode
-n, --nfkc
Normalize string according to Unicode v3.2 NFKC
-p, --profile=STRING
Use specified stringprep profile instead Valid string-
prep profiles: `Nameprep', `iSCSI', `Nodeprep',
`Resourceprep', `trace', `SASLprep'
--debug
Print debugging information
--quiet
Silent operation
AUTHOR
Written by Simon Josefsson.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: [email protected]
GNU Libidn home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/geth-
elp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Simon Josefsson. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL
version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redis-
tribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted
by law.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | library/libidn |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for idn is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and idn programs are properly installed
at your site, the command
info idn
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should give you access to the complete manual.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.19.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
ware/libidn/.
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