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Implement IDNA (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications).


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+ \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}