Shawn Steele's thoughts about Windows and .Net Framework globalization APIs
I split my work between Windows and the .Net framework (Silverlight & Visual Studio). For .Net I work on the .Net System.Text and some of the System.Globalization classes. For Windows I'm responsible for many of the NLS APIs.
My primary work is involved with encodings/code pages, sorting, normalization, and IDN. I also mess with locales and cultures.
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A colleague gave me some URLs to use for testing IDN. I don't vouch for any of these sites, and some are obvious ads and some may be inappropriate (since I can't read them), but maybe they'll be helpful for testing.
Additionally some sites could be phishing, spoofing or have malicious content, so please use this list carefully.
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Hi Shawn,
That's an amazing list of IDNs there! I hope you don't mind that I took the liberty to incorporate some of them into http://IDNSearch.net/ which I started exactly to serve as a repository of IDN examples. Thanks!
No problem, but remember my caveat that these might not all be "real".
Hi hello Shawn,
I saw you wrote the API for the IDN at Microsoft,
I'm following IDN since the testbed from Verisign a few years ago,
and i try to get the functions working in C# with aspx... but i can't get it to work,
you might have any c# examples of the Ms-IDN version ? or you know where to find it ?
i'm a clarion programmer... not so much knowledge yet from c# ..
i couldn't get the xcode.dll to work too, neither the xcodecom com object ..
neither the functions of ms . .at least.. within aspx
good luck with all you do,
greetings,
Menno
I'm not sure about asp.net, but it shouldn't be hard. You have to make a new IdnMapping class.
using System;
using System.Globalization;
public class Sample
{
public static void Main()
IdnMapping idn = new IdnMapping();
Console.WriteLine(idn.GetAscii("www.rüüsbier.ch"));
}
