[126207] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internationalized domain names in the root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Adams)
Thu May 6 14:46:16 2010
From: Geoff Adams <gadams+nanog@avernus.com>
In-Reply-To: <x2k202705b1005051116j8e1bb06dsd527cccb6e9eab90@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 14:45:36 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 5 May 2010, at 2:16 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:34 AM, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> =
wrote:
>> Perhaps a bit off-topic, but some folks might get support calls...
>>=20
>> http://=D9=88=D8=B2=D8=A7=D8=B1=D8=A9-=D8=A7=D9=84=D8=A3=D8=AA=D8=B5=D8=
=A7=D9=84=D8=A7=D8=AA.=D9=85=D8=B5=D8=B1/
>>=20
>> (that's Arabic for <Ministry of Communications>.<Egypt>)
>=20
> Great progress and interesting addition to the root, only issue is
> that after all the work with IDNs you land on a page written in
> english (web browser lang does not matter, name resolves to the same
> IP as the original URL). Hope they soon take advantage of the new name
The page shows up in Arabic for me in all three of Safari (in which the =
URL bar also shows the Arabic name), Chrome and Firefox (in both of =
which the URL bar shows the encoded US-ASCII characters for the domain =
name). I tested using the Mac versions of these three browsers, and =
English is set as my preferred language. Arabic doesn't appear until =
much farther down on the list.
The Safari experience looks nicer, but I suppose it leaves its users =
more susceptible to maliciously-constructed domain names that look =
similar to well-known ones. I wonder if they've addressed that issue in =
some way. I haven't been checking recently.
- Geoff=
