On 15 Aug 2020, at 3:11, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
Hello Mark, others,
On 15/08/2020 01:08, Marc Blanchet wrote:
The best way would be to modify the regex engine itself to embed the IDNA protocol inside it and then define a new regex token for IDNA and then we will be in business… Not an easy task.
I'm not sure I agree. IDNA is changing for new versions of Unicode, and that would mean that such regex engines need to be updated. If that's easy (e.g. it's part of the properties provided by Unicode, which are needed for version updates anyway), that might work,
well, it depends on how/if the regex engine uses any underlying OS services, which may deliver what it needs.
but otherwise, I'd guess it won't.
as I wrote, that would be the best way (from a UA point of view), but far from sure it would work and certainly not an easy task. I’m not saying we should undertake that, but I was throwing an idea in case someone wants to try it out ;-) Marc.
Regards, Martin.
Regards, Marc.