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Implement IDNA (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications).

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\modulesynopsis{Encode and decode data and streams.}
\moduleauthor{Marc-Andre Lemburg}{mal@lemburg.com}
\sectionauthor{Marc-Andre Lemburg}{mal@lemburg.com}
\sectionauthor{Martin v. L\"owis}{martin@v.loewis.de}
\index{Unicode}
\index{Codecs}
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{byte string}
{Convert operand to hexadecimal representation, with two digits per byte}
\lineiv{idna}
{}
{Unicode string}
{Implements \rfc{3490}. \versionadded{2.3}. See also \module{encodings.idna}}
\lineiv{mbcs}
{dbcs}
{Unicode string}
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{Unicode string}
{Encoding of PalmOS 3.5}
\lineiv{punycode}
{}
{Unicode string}
{Implements \rfc{3492}. \versionadded{2.3}}
\lineiv{quopri_codec}
{quopri, quoted-printable, quotedprintable}
{byte string}
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{Compress the operand using gzip}
\end{tableiv}
\subsection{\module{encodings.idna} ---
Internationalized Domain Names in Applications}
\declaremodule{standard}{encodings.idna}
\modulesynopsis{Internationalized Domain Names implementation}
\moduleauthor{Martin v. L\"owis}
This module implements \rfc{3490} (Internationalized Domain Names in
Applications) and \rfc{3492} (Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)). It builds upon the
\code{punycode} encoding and \module{stringprep}. \versionadded{2.3}
These RFCs together define a protocol to support non-ASCII characters
in domain names. A domain name containing non-ASCII characters (such
as ``www.Alliancefran\,caise.nu'') is converted into an
ASCII-compatible encoding (ACE, such as
``www.xn--alliancefranaise-npb.nu''). The ACE form of the domain name
is then used in all places where arbitrary characters are not allowed
by the protocol, such as DNS queries, HTTP \code{Host:} fields, and so
on. This conversion is carried out in the application; if possible
invisible to the user: The application should transparently convert
Unicode domain labels to IDNA on the wire, and convert back ACE labels
to Unicode before presenting them to the user.
Python supports this conversion in several ways: The \code{idna} codec
allows to convert between Unicode and the ACE. Furthermore, the
\module{socket} module transparently converts Unicode host names to
ACE, so that applications need not be concerned about converting host
names themselves when they pass them to the socket module. On top of
that, modules that have host names as function parameters, such as
\module{httplib} and \module{ftplib}, accept Unicode host names
(\module{httplib} then also transparently sends an IDNA hostname in
the \code{Host:} field if it sends that field at all).
When receiving host names from the wire (such as in reverse name
lookup), no automatic conversion to Unicode is performed: Applications
wishing to present such host names to the user should decode them to
Unicode.
The module \module{encodings.idna} also implements the nameprep
procedure, which performs certain normalizations on host names, to
achieve case-insensitivity of international domain names, and to unify
similar characters. The nameprep functions can be used directly if
desired.
\begin{funcdesc}{nameprep}{label}
Return the nameprepped version of \var{label}. The implementation
currently assumes query strings, so \code{AllowUnassigned} is
true.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{ToASCCII}{label}
Convert a label to ASCII, as specified in \rfc{3490}.
\code{UseSTD3ASCIIRules} is assumed to be false.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{ToUnicode}{label}
Convert a label to Unicode, as specified in \rfc{3490}.
\end{funcdesc}