Re: Unicode code page and ☃.net

James: Most likely you're encountering a font issue, rather than a unicode
issue.
It's entirely possible that the characters are being interpreted correctly,
but the browser is using a font that doesn't support those characters.

Also, some browsers have odd support for rendering unicode (non-ascii)
urls, for "security" reasons.
Both chrome and firefox under Windows 7 render
http://www.%e2%98%83.net/<http://www.xn--n3h.net/>
as http://www.xn--n3h.net/ which is the ascii domain encoding (called
punycode or idna) of the snowman unicode character.

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:42 PM, James Lin <James_Lin_at_symantec.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a question regarding the supported Unicode code page. I thought
> once you have unicode code page loaded, all glyph or character should be
> able to map and display correctly regardless of which OS or language you
> are using?
>
> However, i have this snowman: ☃
>
> but once i input www.☃.net into the URL field, the snowman displays empty.
> Does anyone know if this is result in unicode fonts that isn't used
> correctly?
>
> This is also applicable if i enter the following Chinese character in
> Japanese OS: 橠徇欯幜.NET <http://xn--svtwzo6wyxa.NET>
>
> Does anyone know why the empty string is showing?
> thanks
>
>
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 29 2013 - 20:06:33 CDT