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URLs to include Chinese and Arabic Characters

• keltex 17y ago
  Phishers rejoice on the new variants of ebay.com and paypal.com they can now create!
  • mbrubeck 17y ago
    This is a real concern, but browsers and registrars do have some protection against it. IE will render punycode except for scripts in the user's list of accepted languages. Many registrars enforce a no-homograph policy and Mozilla browsers will allow IDNs only from those registrars: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list...
• ax0n 17y ago
  As long as my browser still renders them in punycode by default, I suppose I'm okay with that.
• mildweed 17y ago
  My regex's are cringing already.
• c00p3r 17y ago
  Tell this to your code, which uses char* host_name; gethostbyname() and friends, Windows and other legacy systems. hint: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms738524(VS.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms738524(VS.85).aspx
• bfung 17y ago
  This is amusing, a somewhat related HN story (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=910071 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=910071) If there wasn't a latin language, I wonder how much longer it would've taken for humans to have such rich interactions with computers as we have today. Not sure if locale specific URLs will take off or not, especially pointing toward the other HN article.
  • windsurfer 17y ago
    Maybe a computer-specific language would have been created, composed of whistles, beeps and chirps ;)