This example demonstrates how the library is used to convert internationalized domain names into ASCII compatible names.
/* example3.c --- Example ToASCII() code showing how to use Libidn.
* Copyright (C) 2002-2015 Simon Josefsson
*
* This file is part of GNU Libidn.
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <locale.h> /* setlocale() */
#include <stringprep.h> /* stringprep_locale_charset() */
#include <idna.h> /* idna_to_ascii_lz() */
/*
* Compiling using libtool and pkg-config is recommended:
*
* $ libtool cc -o example3 example3.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libidn`
* $ ./example3
* Input domain encoded as `ISO-8859-1': www.räksmörgåsª.example
* Read string (length 23): 77 77 77 2e 72 e4 6b 73 6d f6 72 67 e5 73 aa 2e 65 78 61 6d 70 6c 65
* ACE label (length 33): 'www.xn--rksmrgsa-0zap8p.example'
* 77 77 77 2e 78 6e 2d 2d 72 6b 73 6d 72 67 73 61 2d 30 7a 61 70 38 70 2e 65 78 61 6d 70 6c 65
* $
*
*/
int
main (void)
{
char buf[BUFSIZ];
char *p;
int rc;
size_t i;
setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
printf ("Input domain encoded as `%s': ", stringprep_locale_charset ());
fflush (stdout);
if (!fgets (buf, BUFSIZ, stdin))
perror ("fgets");
buf[strlen (buf) - 1] = '\0';
printf ("Read string (length %ld): ", (long int) strlen (buf));
for (i = 0; i < strlen (buf); i++)
printf ("%02x ", buf[i] & 0xFF);
printf ("\n");
rc = idna_to_ascii_lz (buf, &p, 0);
if (rc != IDNA_SUCCESS)
{
printf ("ToASCII() failed (%d): %s\n", rc, idna_strerror (rc));
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
printf ("ACE label (length %ld): '%s'\n", (long int) strlen (p), p);
for (i = 0; i < strlen (p); i++)
printf ("%02x ", p[i] & 0xFF);
printf ("\n");
free (p);
return 0;
}