Bug 79427 - IDN support not working ?
Summary: IDN support not working ?
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78885
Alias: None
Product: kdelibs
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Stephan Kulow
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Reported: 2004-04-11 14:34 UTC by Dominique Devriese
Modified: 2004-04-12 18:20 UTC (History)
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Description Dominique Devriese 2004-04-11 14:34:09 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Note: this is a forward of the following Debian bug report:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237990

Here's the original text:
  when I try to access http://www.müller.de or similar idn-aware domains,
  an malformed url error is raised.

I can confirm this on my system: I can't access unicode domains like müller.de from the minicli, nor konqueror itself, I get an error saying "malformed url: http://".  Maybe something is wrong in the KURL parsing, I'm not sure.

From the 3.2 changelog, it seems that 3.2 was supposed to have working IDN support. So I was inclined to think that something must have gone wrong in Debian packaging, but there doesn't seem to be any configure.in.in code about this, and I can't figure what would have gone wrong otherwise.

Can anyone shed some light on this please ?

thanks
domi
Comment 1 Nicolas Goutte 2004-04-11 15:03:04 UTC
Please see bug #78885

You need libidn so that IDN works

Have a nice day!
Comment 2 Dominique Devriese 2004-04-11 17:25:14 UTC
Nicolas Goutte writes:

> Please see bug #78885

Hm, sorry I missed this report :(

> You need libidn so that IDN works

Yes, you seem to be right.  I think this bug can be closed now,

thanks
domi

Comment 3 Nicolas Goutte 2004-04-11 17:28:38 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78885 ***
Comment 4 Dominique Devriese 2004-04-12 13:19:55 UTC
By the way: why is this libidn dlopen'd, and not detected at compile ( i.e. configure ) time ?  Cause this really is a very annoying thing to do wrt. for us packagers, and it would be *much* easier if you could just link to it at compile time.

Anyone care to explain ?

thanks
domi
Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2004-04-12 18:06:55 UTC
it's changed for 3.3
Comment 6 Dominique Devriese 2004-04-12 18:20:32 UTC
K, great, thx
domi