I agree Safari experience looks much nicer and yes whole host of potential malice to arise. Firefox shows punycode http://xn--4gbrim.xn----rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ar/default.aspx Now if I understood arabic only and was travelling or happen to use Firefox which showed punycode how would I trust it? If it was directly translated to latin characters I could trust it with verification from someone I know who understands english. I would not trust puny code because an end user does not know what it means, I think there is potential for a lot of issues here. Zaid On 5/6/10 11:45 AM, "Geoff Adams" <gadams+nanog@avernus.com> wrote:
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...
(that's Arabic for <Ministry of Communications>.<Egypt>)
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