From c7ccb0ff61e443633d0c54cb18b5633a8e95b30c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 01:19:15 -0700 Subject: bpo-17305: Link to the third-party idna package. (GH-25208) 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 --- Doc/library/codecs.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index 6eb907a..32fbc83 100644 --- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst +++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst @@ -1414,6 +1414,9 @@ 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 _`. + 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 -- cgit v0.12