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----- Original Message -----
> > I'll wait for your opinion and work on the separate support in the
> > meantime.
> 
> Your opinion is probably at least as well-informed as ours.  Nobody's
> asked us about IDN in a while, which is why it hasn't been touched in
> so long.  What does your specific customer use case require?

It is a Fedora request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098783

The problem is that some IDN domains are translated differently using
IDNA2003 and IDNA2008. So users have to translate some domains manually
to get to the desired site.

Regards,
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Tomas Hozza
Software Engineer - EMEA ENG Developer Experience

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