Re: Re: What's with the Rx symbol?
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:38:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: What's with the Rx symbol? | ||
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tedd wrote:
> <In general terms>
>
> What you see above and what you claim to be
> "reality" is actually PUNYCODE -- that is NOT
> what the url actually is.
Hmm, the URL that is presented to the webserver is certainly in
punycode - what the user sees depends on the browser.
In my opinion they're both URLs, just in different representations.
> The concept was that browsers were supposed to translate PUNYCODE back
> into the code-points they represented so the end user would be able to
> see their domains in their native language -- not leave them as
> PUNYCODE as they are now for some browsers.
But Tedd, that does actually work _very_ well. The only exceptions I
know of are MSIE (the perpetual exception) and your symbol-domains.
/Per Jessen, Zürich