SOLVED How to enable IDN support in EA4 PHP5.6 (cURL)?

Hi toyama,

While full IDN is not currently supported with ea-libcurl, punycode is still supported. In order to include IDN support, you would need to package your own RPM compiled against libidn.
ea4.ninja

It's also worth noting that PHP has IDN functions to convert strings:
PHP: IDN Functions - Manual

Are you seeing a specific issue with IDN/punycode?

Thanks,

 

I've opened an internal inquiry(EA-6896) with our developers to see if there were any technical reasons why we dropped IDN support in EA4(ea-libcurl). I'll report back once we have an answer.

 

Checking this further, compiling newer versions of curl with IDN support requires libidn2, where previously it required libidn. libidn2 isn't currently provided by CentOS, but it is provided by EPEL. This may require that we provide an ea-libidn2 package. With this internal case, I believe this has been brought to the attention of our EA developers, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to make an official feature request either. Whether we'll move forward to provide this package, I cannot say, but there are a few workarounds; either using punycode or PHP IDN string conversion functions.

 

Do follow up on this thread if you encounter any issues with the conversion functions. If there are known issues with the workaround, it would give us a solid reason to provide libidn2.