The xn--… stuff is the real URL as it exists in the DNS. Conversion to/from the user’s script is supposed to be done by the browser. This has existed for quit

The xn--… stuff is the real URL as it exists in the DNS. Conversion to/from the user’s script is supposed to be done by the browser. This has existed for quite a while, the new thing is that previously the TLD (i.e. country code) still had to be the old ASCII ISO code. Now even the TLD can be encoded, so that it will display in the country’s native script. So far there are 3 non-ASCII TLDs registered (that is, in the DNS they are still ASCII using puny coding). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puny_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puny_code