[New-bugs-announce] [issue40845] idna encoding fails for Cherokee symbols

[Roman Akopov]

New submission from Roman Akopov <adontz at gmail.com>:

For a specific Cherokee string of three symbols b'\\u13e3\\u13b3\\u13a9' generating punycode representation fails.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Execute 'ꮳꮃꭹ'.encode('idna')
of even more reliable
Execute '\u13e3\u13b3\u13a9'.encode('idna')

What is the expected result?

'xn--f9dt7l'

What happens instead?

'xn--tz9ata7l'

Version affected.

Tested on Python 3.8.3 Windows and Python 3.6.8 CentOS.

Other information.

I was testing if our product supports internationalized domain names. So I had written a Python script which generated DNS zone file with punycode encoded names and JavaScript file for a browser to send requests to URLs containing internationalized domain names. Strings were taken from Common Locale Data Repository. 193 various URL, one per language.
 
When executed in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft EDGE, domain name 'ꮳꮃꭹ.myhost.local' is converted to 'xn--f9dt7l.myhost.local', but we have 'xn--tz9ata7l.myhost.local' in DNS zone file and this is how I had found the bug. For 192 other languages I have tested everything works just fine. hese are Afrikaans, Aghem, Akan, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Asu, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basaa, Belarusian, Bemba, Bena, Bulgarian, Bambara, Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Bodo, Bosnian, Catalan, Chakma, Chechen, Cebuano, Chiga, Czech, Church Slavic, Welsh, Danish, Taita, German, Zarma, Lower Sorbian, Duala, Jola-Fonyi, Dzongkha, Embu, Ewe, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Ewondo, Persian, Fulah, Finnish, Filipino, Faroese, French, Friulian, Western Frisian, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Swiss German, Gujarati, Gusii, Manx, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Sichuan Yi, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Ngomba, Machame, Javanese, Georgian, Kabyle, Kamba, Makonde, Kabuverdianu, Kikuyu, Kako, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Khmer, Kannada, Korean, Konkani, Kashmiri, Shambala, Bafia, Colognian, Kurdish, Cornish, Kyrgyz, Langi, Luxembourgish, Ganda, Lakota, Lingala, Lao, Lithuanian, Luba-Katanga, Luo, Luyia, Latvian, Maithili, Masai, Meru, Malagasy, Makhuwa-Meetto, Metaʼ, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Manipuri, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Mundang, Burmese, Mazanderani, Nama, North Ndebele, Low German, Nepali, Dutch, Kwasio, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Odia, Ossetic, Punjabi, Polish, Prussian, Pashto, Portuguese, Quechua, Romansh, Rundi, Romanian, Rombo, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Rwa, Samburu, Santali, Sangu, Sindhi, Northern Sami, Sena, Sango, Tachelhit, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Inari Sami, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Teso, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Tatar, Uyghur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vai, Volapük, Vunjo, Walser, Wolof, Xhosa, Soga, Yangben, Yiddish, Cantonese, Standard Moroccan Tamazight, Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Zulu.

Somehow specifically Cherokee code points trigger the bug.

On top of that, https://www.punycoder.com/ converts 'ꮳꮃꭹ' into 'xn--f9dt7l' and back. However 'xn--tz9ata7l' is reported as an invalid punycode.

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components: Unicode
messages: 370615
nosy: Roman Akopov, ezio.melotti, vstinner
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: idna encoding fails for Cherokee symbols
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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