1stringprep(n)      Preparation of Internationalized Strings      stringprep(n)
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NAME

8       stringprep - Implementation of stringprep
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SYNOPSIS

11       package require Tcl  8.3
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13       package require stringprep  1.0
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15       ::stringprep::register  profile  ?-mapping  list? ?-normalization form?
16       ?-prohibited list? ?-prohibitedList list? ?-prohibitedCommand  command?
17       ?-prohibitedBidi boolean?
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19       ::stringprep::stringprep profile string
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21       ::stringprep::compare profile string1 string2
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DESCRIPTION

26       This  is  an implementation in Tcl of the Preparation of International‐
27       ized Strings ("stringprep"). It allows to  define  stringprep  profiles
28       and  use  them  to prepare Unicode strings for comparison as defined in
29       RFC-3454.
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COMMANDS

32       ::stringprep::register profile ?-mapping  list?  ?-normalization  form?
33       ?-prohibited  list? ?-prohibitedList list? ?-prohibitedCommand command?
34       ?-prohibitedBidi boolean?
35              Register the stringprep profile named profile. Options  are  the
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38              Option  -mapping  specifies  stringprep  mapping  tables.   This
39              parameter takes list of tables from appendix B of RFC-3454.  The
40              usual  list values are {B.1 B.2} or {B.1 B.3} where B.1 contains
41              characters which commonly map to  nothing,  B.3  specifies  case
42              folding,  and B.2 is used in profiles with unicode normalization
43              form KC. Defult value is {} which means no mapping.
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45              Option -normalization takes a string and if it is nonempty  then
46              it  uses  as  a name of Unicode normalization form. Any value of
47              "D", "C", "KD" or "KC" may be used, though RFC-3454 defines only
48              two options: no normalization or normalization using form KC.
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50              Option  -prohibited takes a list of RFC-3454 tables with prohib‐
51              ited characters. Current version does allow to  prohibit  either
52              all  tables  from  C.3  to C.9 or neither of them. An example of
53              this list for RFC-3491 is {A.1 C.1.2 C.2.2 C.3 C.4 C.5  C.6  C.7
54              C.8 C.9}.
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56              Option -prohibitedList specifies a list of additional prohibited
57              characters. The list  contains  not  characters  themselves  but
58              their  Unicode numbers. For example, Nodeprep specification from
59              RFC-3920 forbids the following codes: {0x22 0x26 0x27 0x2f  0x3a
60              0x3c 0x3e 0x40} (\" \& \' / : < > @).
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62              Option  -prohibitedCommand  specifies  a command which is called
63              for every character code in mapped and normalized string. If the
64              command  returns  true  then the character is considered prohib‐
65              ited. This option is useful when a list for  -prohibitedList  is
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68              Option  -prohibitedBidi  takes  boolean  value and if it is true
69              then the bidirectional character  processing  rules  defined  in
70              section 6 of RFC-3454 are used.
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72       ::stringprep::stringprep profile string
73              Performs  stringprep  operations  defined  in profile profile to
74              string string. Result is a prepared string or one of the follow‐
75              ing  errors:  invalid_profile  (profile profile is not defined),
76              prohibited_character (string string contains a prohibited  char‐
77              acter)  or  prohibited_bidi (string string contains a prohibited
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80       ::stringprep::compare profile string1 string2
81              Compares two unicode strings prepared accordingly to  stringprep
82              profile  profile.  The command returns 0 if prepared strings are
83              equal, -1 if string1 is lexicographically less than string2,  or
84              1 if string1 is lexicographically greater than string2.
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EXAMPLES

87       Nameprep profile definition (see RFC-3491):
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89       ::stringprep::register nameprep  -mapping {B.1 B.2}  -normalization KC  -prohibited {A.1 C.1.2 C.2.2 C.3 C.4 C.5 C.6 C.7 C.8 C.9}  -prohibitedBidi 1
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91       Nodeprep and resourceprep profile definitions (see RFC-3920):
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93       ::stringprep::register nodeprep  -mapping {B.1 B.2}  -normalization KC  -prohibited {A.1 C.1.1 C.1.2 C.2.1 C.2.2 C.3 C.4 C.5 C.6 C.7 C.8 C.9}  -prohibitedList {0x22 0x26 0x27 0x2f 0x3a 0x3c 0x3e 0x40}  -prohibitedBidi 1
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95       ::stringprep::register resourceprep  -mapping {B.1}  -normalization KC  -prohibited {A.1 C.1.2 C.2.1 C.2.2 C.3 C.4 C.5 C.6 C.7 C.8 C.9}  -prohibitedBidi 1
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REFERENCES

99       [1]    "Preparation   of   Internationalized  Strings  ('stringprep')",
100              (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3454.txt)
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102       [2]    "Nameprep: A Stringprep  Profile  for  Internationalized  Domain
103              Names (IDN)", (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3491.txt)
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105       [3]    "Extensible  Messaging  and  Presence  Protocol  (XMPP):  Core",
106              (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3920.txt)
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AUTHORS

109       Sergei Golovan
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BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK

112       This document, and the package it describes, will  undoubtedly  contain
113       bugs and other problems.  Please report such in the category stringprep
114       of       the       Tcllib       SF       Trackers       [http://source
115       forge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].   Please  also report any ideas for
116       enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation.
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SEE ALSO

119       unicode(n)
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KEYWORDS

122       stringprep, unicode
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125       Copyright (c) 2007, Sergei Golovan <sgolovan@nes.ru>
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