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Shrug. First time I'd seen this. If it displayed as the original text it would have been clearer.
by duskdozer 7mo ago
Shrug. First time I'd seen this. If it displayed as the original text it would have been clearer.
- httpsterio 7mo agoIn this case yes but it's meant as a punycode scam prevention where common Latin alphabet letters are swapped for similar looking alternatives.
- numpad0 7mo agoIt would make it hard to spot impostor domains like "news.усомbiнаtor[.]сом" if it was. There's enough inertia for FQDNs to be strictly ASCII and any UTF-8(outside ASCII) in domain names to be felt unnatural for an URL, so most systems default to the raw "Punycode" xn-- scheme for all IDNs.
- bombcar 7mo agoSafari at least shows the proper マリウス.com - I believe it has more complicated heuristics that boil down to "if it looks like a real script, show it, if it looks like some mangled English, show the xn-"