libidn: Getting Started

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1 1.1 Getting Started
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1 This manual documents the library programming interface.  All functions
1 and data types provided by the library are explained.  Included are also
1 examples, and documentation for the command line tool ‘idn’ that provide
1 a quick interface to the library.  The Emacs Lisp bindings for the
1 library is also discussed.
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1    The reader is assumed to possess basic familiarity with
1 internationalization concepts and network programming in C or C++.
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1    This manual can be used in several ways.  If read from the beginning
1 to the end, it gives a good introduction into the library and how it can
1 be used in an application.  Forward references are included where
1 necessary.  Later on, the manual can be used as a reference manual to
1 get just the information needed about any particular interface of the
1 library.  Experienced programmers might want to start looking at the
1 examples at the end of the manual (⇒Examples), and then only read
1 up those parts of the interface which are unclear.
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