idnalias.conf(5)idnalias.conf(5)NAMEidnalias.conf - encoding alias file for idnkit
SYNOPSIS
/usr/local/etc/idnalias.conf
DESCRIPTION
The idnalias.conf file defines aliases of encoding names. It is
located on /usr/local/etc/idnalias.conf and always loaded automatically
as idn2.conf and .idn2rc.
When the idnkit library encodes or decodes an internationalized domain
name, it converts the domain name between a local encoding (e.g.
ISO8859-1) and Unicode using iconv(). At run time, the idnkit library
guesses the local encoding from locale information to do the conver‐
sions, but iconv() may not know the encoding name taken from locale
information. Using idnalias.conf, you can avoid the trouble.
The aliases in this file can be used just as the real names. The alias
file is a simple text file, consisting of lines (other than comment
lines, which begin with ``#'', and empty lines) of the form:
alias-name real-name
where alias-name is an alias name to be defined, and real-name is its
real name or another alias name. ``*'' in alias-name has special mean‐
ing. It matches any string, including an empty string.
SAMPLE FILE
The following shows a sample idnalias.conf file.
#
# idnalias.conf sample.
#
*.ISO_8859-1 ISO-8859-1
*.ISO_8859-2 ISO-8859-2
*.SJIS Shift_JIS
*.Shift_JIS Shift_JIS
ja_JP.EUC EUC-JP
ko_KR.EUC EUC-KR
*.big5 Big5
*.Big5 Big5
*.KOI8-R KOI8-R
*.GB2312 GB2312
ja EUC-JP
japanese EUC-JP
FILES
/usr/local/etc/idnalias.conf
SEE ALSOidncheck(1), idncmp(1), idnconv2(1), iconv(3), idn_setlocalencoding(3),
idn2.conf(5), idnlang.conf(5)
Sep 21, 2012 idnalias.conf(5)
