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diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index 74b24e1..24008a0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst +++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst @@ -1425,7 +1425,7 @@ to the user. Python supports this conversion in several ways: the ``idna`` codec performs conversion between Unicode and ACE, separating an input string into labels -based on the separator characters defined in `section 3.1`_ (1) of :rfc:`3490` +based on the separator characters defined in :rfc:`section 3.1 of RFC 3490 <3490#section-3.1>` and converting each label to ACE as required, and conversely separating an input byte string into labels based on the ``.`` separator and converting any ACE labels found into unicode. Furthermore, the :mod:`socket` module @@ -1436,8 +1436,6 @@ parameters, such as :mod:`http.client` and :mod:`ftplib`, accept Unicode host names (:mod:`http.client` then also transparently sends an IDNA hostname in the :mailheader:`Host` field if it sends that field at all). -.. _section 3.1: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490#section-3.1 - 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. |