Re: How to convert <binaryGlowMixedWithASCII> to pure ASCII

In article <m7pv2tFgsp1U1@mid.individual.net>,
John-Paul Stewart  <jpstewart@personalprojects.net> wrote:
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Indeed, there is an "idn" tool as part of the libidn source.  The binary
is in a separate package from the library on Debian.  Perhaps that tool
will do what you want in the shell.

Unfortunately, it has brought no joy.  I installed both idn and idn2 on a
spare machine (*) and did a little testing.  Neither did anything good, with
the strings posted in the OP.

Note that the "d" in "idn" stands for "Domain" as in "Domain Name Service"
(i.e., DNS).  And the man page(s) talk mostly about stuff seeming to relate
to DNS, not to general conversion of arbitrary strings.  So, I'm not too
confident that this is the answer we seek.

(BTW, I too have looked for such a tool in the past and come up empty.
The previous poster's mention of "punycode" and "libidn" were super
helpful to me, too.  Thanks Lew!)

I'd say the search continues.

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(*) Interestingly, the needed libs (libidn.so.x.y.z and libidn2.so.x.y.z)
were already present on the machine, so it only needed to install the
binary executables (/usr/lib/idn and /usr/lib/idn2).

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