tedd wrote: > <In general terms> > > What you see above and what you claim to be > "reality" is actually PUNYCODE -- that is NOT > what the url actually is. Hmm, the URL that is presented to the webserver is certainly in punycode - what the user sees depends on the browser. In my opinion they're both URLs, just in different representations. > The concept was that browsers were supposed to translate PUNYCODE back > into the code-points they represented so the end user would be able to > see their domains in their native language -- not leave them as > PUNYCODE as they are now for some browsers. But Tedd, that does actually work _very_ well. The only exceptions I know of are MSIE (the perpetual exception) and your symbol-domains. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php