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" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 May 2010, at 2:16 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:34 AM, David Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Perhaps a bit off-topic, but some folks might get support calls... >>> >>> http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/ >>> >>> (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
