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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-04-26 19:45:45 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-04-26 19:45:45 (GMT) |
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bpo-17305: Link to the third-party idna package. (GH-25208) (#25211)
So long as we don't have idna2008 in the standard library, we should at least point people to the third-party solution.
(cherry picked from commit 1d023e374cf96d143b065242131ddc9b889f9a1e)
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index 992672e..f09b0e1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst +++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst @@ -1413,6 +1413,9 @@ Applications) and :rfc:`3492` (Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)). It builds upon the ``punycode`` encoding and :mod:`stringprep`. +If you need the IDNA 2008 standard from :rfc:`5891` and :rfc:`5895`, use the +third-party `idna module <https://pypi.org/project/idna/>_`. + These RFCs together define a protocol to support non-ASCII characters in domain names. A domain name containing non-ASCII characters (such as ``www.Alliancefrançaise.nu``) is converted into an ASCII-compatible encoding |