PRECIS-i18n: Internationalized Usernames and Passwords
======================================================

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If you want your application to accept Unicode user names and passwords,
you must be careful in how you validate and compare them. The PRECIS
framework makes internationalized user names and passwords safer for use
by applications. PRECIS profiles transform Unicode strings into a
canonical form, suitable for comparison.

This module implements the PRECIS Framework as described in:

-  PRECIS Framework: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of
   Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols (`RFC
   8264 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8264>`__)
-  Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings
   Representing Usernames and Passwords (`RFC
   8265 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8265>`__)
-  Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings
   Representing Nicknames (`RFC
   8266 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8266>`__)

Requires Python 3.3 or later.

Usage
-----

Use the ``get_profile`` function to obtain a profile object, then use
its ``enforce`` method. The ``enforce`` method returns a Unicode string.

::


    >>> from precis_i18n import get_profile
    >>> username = get_profile('UsernameCaseMapped')
    >>> username.enforce('Kevin')
    'kevin'
    >>> username.enforce('\u212Aevin')
    'kevin'
    >>> username.enforce('\uFF2Bevin')
    'kevin'
    >>> username.enforce('\U0001F17Aevin')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
        ...
    UnicodeEncodeError: 'UsernameCaseMapped' codec can't encode character '\U0001f17a' in position 0: DISALLOWED/symbols

Alternatively, you can use the Python ``str.encode`` API. Import the
``precis_i18n.codec`` module to register the PRECIS codec names. Now you
can use the ``str.encode`` method with any Unicode string. The result
will be a UTF-8 encoded byte string or a ``UnicodeEncodeError`` if the
string is disallowed.

::


    >>> import precis_i18n.codec
    >>> 'Kevin'.encode('UsernameCasePreserved')
    b'Kevin'
    >>> '\u212Aevin'.encode('UsernameCasePreserved')
    b'Kevin'
    >>> '\uFF2Bevin'.encode('UsernameCasePreserved')
    b'Kevin'
    >>> '\u212Aevin'.encode('UsernameCaseMapped')
    b'kevin'
    >>> '\uFF2Bevin'.encode('OpaqueString')
    b'\xef\xbc\xabevin'
    >>> '\U0001F17Aevin'.encode('UsernameCasePreserved')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
        ...
    UnicodeEncodeError: 'UsernameCasePreserved' codec can't encode character '\U0001f17a' in position 0: DISALLOWED/symbols

Alternative Unicode Versions
----------------------------

The ``get_profile`` function uses whatever version of ``unicodedata`` is
provided by the Python runtime. The Unicode version is usually tied to the
major version of the Python runtime. Python 3.7.x uses Unicode 11.0. Python
3.6.x uses Unicode 10.0.

To use an alternative ``unicodedata`` implementation, pass the ``unicodedata``
keyword argument to ``get_profile``.

For example, you could separately install version 12.0 of the
``unicodedata2`` module from PyPI. Then, pass it to get_profile to retrieve a
profile that uses Unicode 12.0.

::

    >> import unicodedata2
    >> from precis_i18n import get_profile
    >> username = get_profile('UsernameCaseMapped', unicodedata=unicodedata2)
    >> username.enforce('Kevin')
    'kevin'

Supported Profiles and Codecs
-----------------------------

Each PRECIS profile has a corresponding codec name. The ``CaseMapped``
variant converts the string to lower case for implementing
case-insensitive comparison.

-  UsernameCasePreserved
-  UsernameCaseMapped
-  OpaqueString
-  NicknameCasePreserved
-  NicknameCaseMapped

The ``CaseMapped`` profiles use Unicode ``ToLower`` per the latest RFC. Previous
verions of this package used Unicode Default Case Folding. There are CaseMapped variants
for different case transformations. These profile names are deprecated:

-  UsernameCaseMapped:ToLower
-  UsernameCaseMapped:CaseFold
-  NicknameCaseMapped:ToLower
-  NicknameCaseMapped:CaseFold

The PRECIS base string classes are also available as codecs:

-  IdentifierClass
-  FreeFormClass

Userparts and Space Delimited Usernames
---------------------------------------

The Username profiles in this implementation do not allow spaces. The Username
profiles correspond to the definition of "userparts" in RFC 8265. If you want to
allow spaces in your application's user names, you must split the string first.

::

    def enforce_app_username(name):
        profile = precis_i18n.get_profile('UsernameCasePreserved')
        userparts = [profile.enforce(userpart) for userpart in name.split(' ')]
        return ' '.join(userparts)

Be aware that a username constructed this way can contain bidirectional text in
the separate userparts.

Error Messages
--------------

A PRECIS profile raises a ``UnicodeEncodeError`` exception if a string
is disallowed. The ``reason`` field specifies the kind of error.

+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| Reason                       | Explanation                                 |
+==============================+=============================================+
| DISALLOWED/arabic\_indic     | Arabic-Indic digits cannot be mixed with    |
|                              | Extended Arabic-Indic Digits. (Context)     |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/bidi\_rule        | Right-to-left string cannot contain         |
|                              | left-to-right characters due to the "Bidi"  |
|                              | rule. (Context)                             |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/controls          | Control character is not allowed.           |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/empty             | After applying the profile, the result      |
|                              | cannot be empty.                            |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/exceptions        | Exception character is not allowed.         |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/extended\_arabic\ | Extended Arabic-Indic digits cannot be      |
| _indic                       | mixed with Arabic-Indic Digits. (Context)   |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/greek\_keraia     | Greek keraia must be followed by a Greek    |
|                              | character. (Context)                        |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/has\_compat       | Compatibility characters are not allowed.   |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/hebrew\           | Hebrew punctuation geresh or gershayim must |
| _punctuation                 | be preceded by Hebrew character. (Context)  |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/katakana\_middle\ | Katakana middle dot must be accompanied by  |
| _dot                         | a Hiragana, Katakana, or Han character.     |
|                              | (Context)                                   |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/middle\_dot       | Middle dot must be surrounded by the letter |
|                              | 'l'. (Context)                              |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/not\_idempotent   | After reapplying the profile, the result is |
|                              | not stable.                                 |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/old\_hangul\_jamo | Conjoining Hangul Jamo is not allowed.      |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/other             | Other character is not allowed.             |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/other\_letter\    | Non-traditional letter or digit is not      |
| _digits                      | allowed.                                    |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/precis\           | Default ignorable or non-character is not   |
| _ignorable\_properties       | allowed.                                    |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/punctuation       | Non-ASCII punctuation character is not      |
|                              | allowed.                                    |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/spaces            | Space character is not allowed.             |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/symbols           | Non-ASCII symbol character is not allowed.  |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/unassigned        | Unassigned Unicode character is not         |
|                              | allowed.                                    |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/zero\_width\      | Zero width joiner must immediately follow a |
| _joiner                      | combining virama. (Context)                 |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| DISALLOWED/zero\_width\      | Zero width non-joiner must immediately      |
| _nonjoiner                   | follow a combining virama, or appear where  |
|                              | it breaks a cursive connection in a         |
|                              | formally cursive script. (Context)          |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+

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