Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes: > >> IceCat shows ASCII-compatible encoding (ACE, roughly Punycode) for >> so-called internationalized domain names (IDNs) instead of displaying >> them properly—e.g., <https://xn--drivation-b4a.fr/> instead of >> <https://dérivation.fr/>. > > I see the same behavior, which does not happen on 'firefox-esr' on > Debian. Epiphany displays the accented letter, too. >> I believe it purposefully has a white list of the kind of IDNs it >> accepts to display properly (to avoid phishing). In ‘about:config’ >> there’s a set of ‘network.IDN.whitelist’ Booleans, which suggest the >> example above should work, but for some reason it doesn’t. >> >> Ideas? > > My first guess is that it has something to do with the fact that support > for language packs is currently broken. Perhaps some data from the > language pack is needed to make decisions about which IDNs to display. > > The problem with language packs is that they must now be digitally > signed by Mozilla, and obviously we cannot do that. I guess we need to > find the code that performs those signature checks, and disable it for > language packs found in trusted system directories. Oh, I see. Would be nice if we could achieve that. Thanks for checking! Ludo’.
