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Re: postfix 3.1.4 imported in current



On 19.02.2017 02:42, Rin Okuyama wrote:
> On 2017/02/19 4:49, Jaromír Doleček wrote:
>> 2017-02-18 19:09 GMT+01:00 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>:
>>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 11:32:39AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>>>> Sure, the first is easier. For the second we need icu in base
>>>> (http://site.icu-project.org/). We could discuss the second in
>>>> tech-userlevel.
>>>
>>> No ICU in base. Just no.
>>
>> I share this sentiment, too.
>>
>> Do we use the bind-bundled idnkit for our bind build? Possibly we can
>> reuse the same for the postfix code too, if it's good enough for bind
>> it should be good enough for postfix.
>>
>> It would be a shame to have smptutf8 just disabled.
> 
> Hmm, at the first sight, postfix uses ICU for two purposes:
> 
> (1) ASCII/UTF-8 domain name conversion
> (2) casefold UTF-8 text for caseless comparison
> 
> (1) can be replaced by idnkit if someone writes wrapper functions.
> (2) seems to be lacking from idnkit. We probably can write stripped-
> down version of that function, derived from ICU.
> 
> Anyhow, it needs some work to enable smptutf8...
> 
> Thanks,
> rin

Right now ICU is the only library I'm missing in the base. If there are
good alternatives to go, I would be satisfied as well.

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