Re: [Help-gnunet] GNUnet's ties to languages

[Tirifto]

On Sun, 2017-12-03 at 17:19 +0100, lurchi wrote:
> Hello Tirifto!
> 
> GNUnet's goal is to provide a framework for secure peer-to-peer
> networking to application developers. So it is dependent on the
> application what technical details such as addresses are exposed to
> users. If an application exposes GNS addresses (as described at
> https://gnunet.org/gns) which have the format
> 
> <name>.<nick>.gnu
> 
> it's up to the application developer to decide what the name/nick
> part looks like and whether it should be user-defined or not. So your
> friends might we able to reach your website by typing
> 
> ttt.tirifto.gnu
> 
> if you have stored a value under the name ttt in your GNS zone.

Thanks for the answer! I suppose that the very likely user-facing parts
which depend on GNUnet directly are of greatest interest here.
“gnu” seems fairly language-neutral to me, which is great news!

> AFAIK the current GNS implementation allows UTF-8 encoded strings (I
> never tested this). So it will be possible to use characters from all
> languages.

Most excellent. I still don’t really grasp this project, but it seems
like you’re doing something good and doing it well. Thank you all for
that. :)

> all the best,
> lurchi.

Same to you
// Tirifto

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