Re: Re: What's with the Rx symbol?

2008/8/30 Per Jessen <per@computer.org>: > tedd wrote: > >> What some browser developers did was to NOT make the conversion from >> PUNYCODE to the correct code-points but rather show the PUNYCODE >> "as-is", which was never the intent of the IDNS WG. This act defeated >> the entire process of allowing non-English people to have non-English >> domain names. This like throwing the baby out with the bath water. > > But that's not what FF does though - it has no problem with other domain > names with international characters. For instance, the normal Danish, > German, French, Spanish and Icelandic characters work just fine. I have > a testing domain which contains an 'ë' - also no problem. It seems to > be just somewhat limited to those (and others I'm sure). True... Firefox holds a whitelist of toplevel domains that are allowed to display unicode (to see the list go to about:config and enter IDN.whitelist into the filter box). It does not allow .com domains to contain unicode for obvious phishing reasons, but if I temporarily add it to the whitelist, I can see tedds yin-yang domain in all its glory. Although not, for some reason which I can't be bothered investigating, the rx-2 domain. -robin