Re: Regex for email validation

From: Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:38:19 +0000
Subject: Re: Regex for email validation
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Per Jessen wrote: > tedd wrote: > >> But as it is now, it's not so much IF the domain name is easy to >> type in or not, but rather does the Rx.com show up in the URL once >> you get there? And it does for most browsers other than IE. >> >> You can get to the site very easily, try typing: >> >> http://rx-2.com >> >> That wasn't hard, now was it? > > What should have happened here, Tedd? I just got the message "you > have the wrong Browser" - I'm using Firefox, I thought that was > perfectly capable of using IDNs. Interesting - I copy-pasted the Rx symbol (from your webpage) into FF and appended .com - and FF converted the URL symbol to "xn--u2g.com". I guess FF only works with a limited subset of the many possible special characters. /Per Jessen, Zürich

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