It's possible to be smarter than that. I believe Chrome doesn't drop down to punycode if it sees the string is entirely within a single language so that there i

It's possible to be smarter than that. I believe Chrome doesn't drop down to punycode if it sees the string is entirely within a single language so that there is no possibility of look-alike characters. It might even be checking explicitly for the presence of look-alike character pairs, since they're known ahead of time.