Message-Id: <202003241808.02OI8fcK006505@delorie.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:05:52 +0100 From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com]" To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU IDN library 1.35 uploaded. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This is a port of GNU IDN library 1.35 to MSDOS/DJGPP. Libidn, the GNU IDN library, is a fully documented implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications. The library's purpose is to encode and decode internationalized domain name strings. DJGPP specific changes. ======================= - The source archive that has been used to create this port can be downloaded as: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.35.tar.gz - There are no djgpp specific user visible changes. - To build and use this port, a port of the iconv library is required. It is available at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/licv116b.zip This is not optional. The library and the binary do some recoding of strings between some imput character set and an output character set. If these products have not been compiled with iconv then only ASCII input will be possible, but in that case the usage of the lib would be pontless anyway. The input character set to be used must be specified by setting the environment variable named CHARSET. If that variable is not set then again ASCII is assumed and only the characters less than 128 will be translated. For all others, the applications will abort with an corresponding error message. For most western/latin european countries the correct value of CHARSET will be CP850. For other regions, the used DOS code page must be specified as used character set. - The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3 and Win98SE. There is no guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS- like OS. Due to the use of long file names it will not be possible neither to configure nor to compile without LFN support. The port has been compiled using gcc346 and bnu234b. - The port has been tested by using it. I have used them only on WinXP and Win98SE. It has worked flawlessly. I do not konw if this will ever be the case on FreeDOS. I have never used/tested them in that environment. - Some of the file names of the man pages are not SFN clean. I have no intention to fix this. - If NLS support is wanted, then the sources must be reconfigured passing the nls option to config.bat. As usual, all djgpp specific files (diffs, README files, etc.) are stored in the "djgpp" directory. The sources have been configured to be build in the "_build" directory. If for some reason it does not work for you, delete it contents and configure from scratch again. Please read the docs to become familiar with this product. Here is an extract of the NEWS file showing the user visible changes from the last port (GNU IDN library 1.35) to this one: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the first release of this port so read the pertinent documentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The port consists of the usual three packages that have been produced using djdev205 (CVS repository code) and can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time stamp 2020-03-18): libidn 1.35 binary, headers, library, info and man format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/lidn135b.zip libidn 1.35 dvi, html, pdf and ps format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/lidn135d.zip libidn 1.35 source: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/lidn135s.zip Send GNU IDN library specific bug reports to . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel