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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex index d70a849..38669b2 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex @@ -1791,6 +1791,27 @@ Tkinter.wantobjects = 0 Any breakage caused by this change should be reported as a bug. +\item Support for internationalized domain names (RFCs 3454, 3490, +3491, and 3492) has been added. The ``idna'' encoding can be used +to convert between a Unicode domain name and the ASCII-compatible +encoding (ACE). + +\begin{verbatim} +>>> u"www.Alliancefran\,caise.nu".encode("idna") +'www.xn--alliancefranaise-npb.nu' +\end{verbatim} + +In addition, the \module{socket} has been extended to transparently +convert Unicode hostnames to the ACE before passing them to the C +library. In turn, modules that pass hostnames ``through'' (such as +\module{httplib}, \module{ftplib}) also support Unicode host names +(httplib also sends ACE Host: headers). \module{urllib} supports +Unicode URLs with non-ASCII host names as long as the \code{path} part +of the URL is ASCII only. + +To implement this change, the module \module{stringprep}, the tool +\code{mkstringprep} and the \code{punycode} encoding have been added. + \end{itemize} |