Hi, On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:27:52AM +0100, John Lane wrote: > On 20/04/17 05:24, Florian Bruhin wrote: > > > > I opened an issue here with some first thoughts: > > https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/2547 > > > > At a very simplistic level, what would work for me would be an option > that I can enable that causes IDN to be highlighted somehow (perhaps > inverse video in the status bar, perhaps alternating the two > representations?). > > Personally, I can read the Roman alphabet, accented or not, whether it > be English, German or whatever (I may not understand the language I am > reading though, but I can interpret the characters I see). I can't read > chinese, cryllic, arabic or any other non-latin script. So, for me, an > option to highlight non-latin IDN URLs would be a start because I would > have no interest in following such links. > > I realise that won't be a solution for many people but I guess it would > cover the majority of the people who would be the target of such a > spoofing scheme (i.e. those who primarily use the latin alphabet / ascii > character set). > > I don't know how this stuff works so I'll butt out now, glad to see it's > being tracked as an issue on Github.
You mean in the status bar, where the current URL is shown? I had considered that, but I'm not sure it's obvious enough. If you don't know, is a, say, grey "apple.com" different from a green one? My current stance on this, by the way, is showing the Punycode representation in addition to the "normal" one for any non-ascii URL: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/2547#issuecomment-295877408 Florian -- https://www.qutebrowser.org | m...@the-compiler.org (Mail/XMPP) GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | https://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc I love long mails! | https://email.is-not-s.ms/
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