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it's displayed like that on purpose, so folks don't fake banking site or other important domains with unicode characters that are similiar to the standard latin
by johnny22 16y ago
it's displayed like that on purpose, so folks don't fake banking site or other important domains with unicode characters that are similiar to the standard latin characters but aren't actually them.
look in about:config for
"network.IDN.whitelist.tld" and put .ws in there
- w1ntermute 16y agoAh didn't think about that. I guess I should leave it as it is after all ;/ But won't this have to be enabled in other countries (like China), where they actually want to see the Unicode characters? Isn't that going to increase their risks of being phished?
- thristian 16y agoDifferent top-level domains have different rules about what characters they'll allow in domain names. If a registrar has policies that prevent homograph registration, Firefox (and other browser vendors) will add them to the default whitelist. If the .cn registrar has a policy that says "only ASCII and CJK characters will be allowed in domain names", then it's pretty unlikely that a homoglyph attack will work, and browsers will show the properly-decoded string as the domain name. (and sure enough, my copy of Firefox sets "network.IDN.whitelist.cn" to true)