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Just set your browser to always show punycode. On Firefox, network.IDN_show_punycode = true URLs are no place for unicode characters to hide in. An xn-- pre
by noisem4ker 9y ago
Just set your browser to always show punycode. On Firefox,
network.IDN_show_punycode = true
URLs are no place for unicode characters to hide in. An xn-- prefix is all the warning you need.
- bzbarsky 9y agoYour claims are false for the majority of the world's population (which lives in non-English speaking countries and may well want to visit sites whose names make sense in their own language).
- eeZah7Ux 9y agoThat's why Firefox detects if the URL mixes together symbols from different languages: https://wiki.mozilla.org/IDN_Display_Algorithm https://wiki.mozilla.org/IDN_Display_Algorithm Much better than showing punycode all the time.
- kuschku 9y agoSo sites such as bücher.de (I originally had a link here to the site, but HN punycodes that: http://xn--bcher-kva.de/ http://xn--bcher-kva.de/ ) shouldn’t exist? That’s a very america-centric world, it’s like enforcing only US-ASCII on all websites. Most of the world doesn’t speak English, and browsers showing domains punycoded leads to mistrust, especially if it’s a legitimate retailer (the one mentioned above actually added a redirect to a romanized version of the URL due to that)