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diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index 3169ae517b..b15d293e38 100644 --- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst +++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst @@ -1417,6 +1417,9 @@ Applications) and :rfc:`3492` (Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)). It builds upon the ``punycode`` encoding and :mod:`stringprep`. +If you need the IDNA 2008 standard from :rfc:`5891` and :rfc:`5895`, use the +third-party `idna module <https://pypi.org/project/idna/>_`. + These RFCs together define a protocol to support non-ASCII characters in domain names. A domain name containing non-ASCII characters (such as ``www.Alliancefrançaise.nu``) is converted into an ASCII-compatible encoding |