Re: bug - idn: could not convert from ASCII to UTF-8

[Tim Rühsen]

On 20.02.22 08:44, Simon Josefsson via Discussion list for GNU 
Internationalized Domain Name library (Libidn) wrote:
> Bogdan <bogdan.pylypenko107@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > # I have a bug:
> >
> > $ echo "домен.рф" | idn
> > idn: could not convert from ASCII to UTF-8
>
> Could your platform be lacking nl_langinfo() perhaps?  What system is
> this, and could you show the output from your libidn ./configure run?

This happens here on Debian unstable as well, while 'idn2' works as 
expected.

$ echo "домен.рф" | idn2
xn--d1acufc.xn--p1ai

Either the error message from 'idn' is misleading or the way iconv() is 
called / handled is not correct.

(Sorry, no time to look into the code right now.)

Regards, Tim

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