From ce085a884449ab1c54818c2e4c497c4afde49946 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gregory P. Smith" Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 00:34:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-17305: Link to the third-party idna package. --- Doc/library/codecs.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index 3169ae517b7509..b15d293e38f633 100644 --- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst +++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst @@ -1417,6 +1417,9 @@ Applications) and :rfc:`3492` (Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)). It builds upon the ``punycode`` encoding and :mod:`stringprep`. +If you need the IDNA 2008 standard from :rfc:`5891` and :rfc:`5895`, use the +third-party `idna module _`. + These RFCs together define a protocol to support non-ASCII characters in domain names. A domain name containing non-ASCII characters (such as ``www.Alliancefrançaise.nu``) is converted into an ASCII-compatible encoding