On Tuesday, February 22, 2022 10:50:06 PM CET Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek@in.waw.pl said:
Yes. But how many domains using idn are there? I worked on idn support in systemd, but when preparing the description of this change I realized that I have _never_ once used an idn domain outside of testing.
And note that this is not about user-facing programs like firefox. I assume that there might be _some_ use of idn in firefox. But for command-line tools like curl this seems even less likely.
I'm pretty sure use of IDN domains is a regional thing. I live in the US and don't see IDN domains in my normal use. But dropping support for them from a core utility would be bad for those that live in regions where IDN domains may be more common.
-- Chris Adams linux@cmadams.net
If this appears to be a real problem, it is easy for us to re-enable IDN in libcurl-minimal, even in an update of a stable Fedora release. So I do not think we need to enable it proactively.
Kamil