Re: Unicode & IDNs

From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Mon Nov 15 2004 - 02:30:50 CST

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    Hello,

    I had written:
    > OS | Browser | http://www.əɛ.net/ | http://żółw.pl/
    > -------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------
    > Win XP | Opera 7.54 | OK | OK
    > SP2 +----------------+--------------------+-----------------
    > | Netscape 6.2 | not found² | not found
    > +----------------+--------------------+-----------------
    > | IE 6.0 SP 2 | not found* | not found*
    > +----------------+--------------------+-----------------
    > | Firefox 1.0 | OK | OK
    > -------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------
    > Win 98 | Netscape 4.77 | not found¹ | not found
    > +----------------+--------------------+-----------------
    > | Netscape 6.2.2 | not found² | not found°
    > |----------------+--------------------+-----------------
    > | IE 5 SP 2 | not found³ | not found
    > -------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------
    >
    >
    > ¹ http://www.??.net/
    > ² http://www.%C9%99%C9%9B.net/
    > ³ http://www./??.net/
    > ° http://%c5%bc%c3%b3%c5%82w.pl/
    > * Not found on 1st try after IE start,
    > IE 6 hung on subsequent tries

    Peter Kirk wrote:
    > The problem was that the browser was looking for http://www.%c9%99%c9%9b.net/
    > rather than http://www.əɛ.net/, in other words exactly the same problem as Otto
    > found with Netscape 6.2. The clipboard contained http://www.%c9%99%c9%9b.net/,
    > as both Unicode text and basic plain text. There was obviously a problem in how
    > Mozilla copied this address to the clipboard.

    In my tests, however, the address http://www.əɛ.net/ was pasted correctly
    into the respective browser’s address field; only after attempting to
    fetch the page, the distorted address appeared, either in the address
    field or in the error message (depending on the browser).

    Best wishes,
       Otto Stolz



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