 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to Rob
Re: ICANN allows non-Latin character domain names said by Rob:Not to mention that many of us programmers will need to change our programs to accept the new domain name formats. There is only 1 new format and it is already supported by most recent browsers. It is still only ASCII but is encoded to handle the x128+ codes and Unicode. The system is named Punycode and the details are at »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode. All URLS of this form start with xn-- as the first 4 characters of their URL (ie: h t t p : / / xn--) so they are not hard to spot. |
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 r81984Fair and BalancedPremium
join:2001-11-14
Katy, TX | I just did search for XN urls and they are all jibberish.
»xn--7dbakjaabwl7h.com
Who would want this?
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Democrats are not Socialists any more than Republicans are. |
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | Did you read the Wikipedia article I pointed at? The xn-- URLs are encoded. If you want to search for a domain name you must start with the Unicode version and convert to xn-- form (or take the xn-- form and decode it to Unicode). If you say the location bar is showing xn-- jibberish, you have to flip a Browser setting to tell it to display as Unicode not Punycode. |
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