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NAME

idn - Internationalized Domain Names command line tool

SYNOPSIS

idn [OPTION]... [STRINGS]...

DESCRIPTION

Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) convert STRINGS, or standard input.

Command line interface to the internationalized domain name library.

All strings are expected to be encoded in the preferred charset used by your locale. Use `--debug' to find out what this charset is. You can override the charset used by setting environment variable CHARSET.

To process a string that starts with `-', for example `-foo', use `--' to signal the end of parameters, as in `idn --quiet -a -- -foo'.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

Print help and exit
Print version and exit
Prepare string according to nameprep profile
Decode Punycode
Encode Punycode
Convert to ACE according to IDNA (default mode)
Convert from ACE according to IDNA
Toggle IDNA AllowUnassigned flag (default off)
Toggle IDNA UseSTD3ASCIIRules flag (default off)
Don't check string for TLD specific rules Only for --idna-to-ascii and --idna-to-unicode
Normalize string according to Unicode v3.2 NFKC
Use specified stringprep profile instead Valid stringprep profiles: `Nameprep', `iSCSI', `Nodeprep', `Resourceprep', `trace', `SASLprep'
Print debugging information
Silent operation

AUTHOR

Written by Simon Josefsson.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to: bug-libidn@gnu.org
GNU Libidn home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2010 Simon Josefsson. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for idn is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and idn programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info idn

should give you access to the complete manual.

February 2010 idn 1.18