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Re: IDNA and U+08A1 and related cases (was: Re: Barry Leiba's Discuss on draft-ietf-json-i-json-05: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT))

2015-01-26 21:38:36
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 02:11:42AM -0000, John Levine wrote:

Of course, you can put any crud in the 3LD and below, but that's
always been true.

Indeed.  For example, Safari seems to be based on IDNA 2003, and
displays

    xn--ls8h.example.com

(U+1F4A9) as

    <glyph for smiling pile of poo>.example.com

while Firefox and Chrome manage to avoid displaying that glyph,
leaving the domain in Punycode form.

-- 
        Viktor.