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Someone always says this when a punycode link shows up. I'm glad they don't. What you see? That's the link. It's what the browser sends, it's what DNS resolves
by samatman 2y ago
Someone always says this when a punycode link shows up.
I'm glad they don't. What you see? That's the link. It's what the browser sends, it's what DNS resolves: it's the link. Displaying it as Unicode is just a display option, and it's one which opens up all manner of mischief through confusables.
It's a hacker culture choice, and it's one I appreciate.
- TRiG_Ireland 2y agoOn the other hand, that's a rather ango-centric viewpoint.
- samatman 2y agoIt is! So kind of you to notice. Perhaps you could also notice that English is the language used on Hacker News. I'm quite sure a website centered in a different cultural landscape might choose a different convention. Good for them, I say. If URLs start being Unicode, and not an ASCII encoding which is sometimes displayed as Unicode, that would be a different story. But that's not how things are.