Re: New feature: De-IDNA

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Hi.  I added a new binding `W i' in summary buffers, that decode IDNA
>> names inside articles.  It works if you have GNU Libidn installed
>> ("idn" command line tool.)
>
> Which reminds me -- idna.el has been around for years now, and it
> still not included in Emacs.  Shouldn't it be?

Perhaps.  It is not useful without the external 'idn' command.  And if
you install libidn to get it, you will probably get idna.el too.  But
I don't object to adding it, it would simplify some message.el code
(to simply assume idna.el exists).

> On the other hand, it looks like IDNA is going the way of the dodo,
> isn't it?  Are anybody using it at all?

I get spam to my IDNA-address...

IDNA is gaining grounds slowly for web browsing (especially in Asia, I
imagine), but for e-mail the solution is simply not good enough -- the
local-part isn't internationalized -- so the people who wants fully
internationalized e-mail will have to wait for EAI:

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/eai-charter.html