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I just tried doing that with a few domain names containing an umlaut (äöü) and every single time that letter was copied into the clipboard (even though behind t
by germanier 10y ago
I just tried doing that with a few domain names containing an umlaut (äöü) and every single time that letter was copied into the clipboard (even though behind the scenes at the request level it would have been encoded). This is what I expect as a regular user. They don't want to deal with encoded, unreadable URLs.
- Symbiote 10y agoI tried with http://њњњ.срб http://њњњ.срб , which Firefox copies correctly, but Chromium copies as http://xn--g2aaa.xn--90a3ac/ http://xn--g2aaa.xn--90a3ac/ — not very useful. This is a different mechanism to the path part, where both Firefox and Chromium give https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8... rather than the readable https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Россия https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Россия
- Dylan16807 10y agoIf you select the entire URL bar, you get the encoded form. If you leave off the protocol, or just the h, you get it unencoded.
- rzzzt 10y agoThe two methods are punycode [1] and percent encoding [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding