Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote on Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 10:44:12AM +0100: > According to ICANN [1], there were 8.3 mln IDN domains worldwide. I admit > that is more than I expected. According to verisgn [2], out of 364.6 mln total, > i.e. around 2%. > Apparently .рф is fairly popular, with 1/5th of .ru registrations [3]. Dmitry mentionned Russia in a sibling mail, Japan also definitley has quite a few of these as well which I see often enough here, I defintely wouldn't say IDN domains are rare in such regions... > But from what I have seen, all those internationalized domains serve > as a redirect or backup to sites also available as ascii. And for command-line > tools or scripting, using those ascii versions seems quite likely… ... but I can also agree with this, I haven't seen any ostensibly used in scripts, although I don't particularly look at Japanese documentations/examples so I wouldn't say I'm sure about that. Searching github for "curl https://xn--"; (xn-- is the punycode prefix) did turn out some results though in issues, e.g. acme.sh: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/issues/3078 which does make sense, cert renewal happens with these domains usually used in web browsers, so is quite likely to contain such domains if only for testing purposes. With that in mind monitoring is also very likely, stuff like nagios plugins or prometheus web-related probes will definitely want idn support. > I certainly wouldn't want to break things for people using non-latin > scripts. So I'd definitely vote to enable libidn2 in curl-minimal, > _if_ there are people who'd actually use this for real. I'd say if desktop environments and things that might deal with such domains are updated to pull curl-full it'll probably be ok, but at this point I also think anything non-trivial in an international setup would want to pull it in so it might as well get included in curl-minimal. That being said, the point about FTP in another part of the thread is also probably correct, so curl minimal is starting not to feel that minimal... I'm not sure forking a third version of the package for default setup makes sense though. -- Dominique _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
