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- /* ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK *****
- * Version: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
- *
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- * The Original Code is i-DNS.net International, Inc. code.
- *
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- * the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
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-
- #include "nsISupports.idl"
-
- /**
- * nsIIDNService interface.
- *
- * IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) support. Provides facilities
- * for manipulating IDN hostnames according to the specification set
- * forth by the IETF.
- *
- * IDN effort:
- * http://www.ietf.org/html.characters/idn-charter.html
- * http://www.i-dns.net
- *
- * IDNA specification:
- * http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-idna-06.txt
- */
-
- [scriptable, uuid(7B67747E-A8C4-4832-80C7-39EBB0C11F94)]
- interface nsIIDNService : nsISupports
- {
- /**
- * Prepares the input hostname according to IDNA ToASCII operation,
- * the input hostname is assumed to be UTF8-encoded.
- *
- * The current input is string, but this may change pending Bug 84186.
- */
- ACString convertUTF8toACE(in AUTF8String input);
-
-
- /**
- * This is the ToUnicode operation as specified in the IDNA proposal,
- * with an additional step to encode the result in UTF-8.
- * It takes an ACE-encoded hostname and performs ToUnicode to it, then
- * encodes the resulting string into UTF8.
- */
- AUTF8String convertACEtoUTF8(in ACString input);
-
- /**
- * Checks if the input string is ACE encoded or not.
- */
- boolean isACE(in ACString input);
-
- /**
- * Performs the unicode normalization needed for hostnames in IDN,
- * for callers that want early normalization.
- */
- AUTF8String normalize(in AUTF8String input);
- };
-