On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 11:39 -0500, tedd wrote: > At 11:41 AM -0600 1/9/11, Donovan Brooke wrote: > >Daniel Brown wrote: > >>On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:58, tedd<tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>>For example -- > >>> > >>>http://xn--19g.com > >>> > >>>-- is square-root dot com. In all browsers except Safari... > > > >but yes, the actual square root character appears in safari only. > > > >Interesting! > >Donovan > > Donovan: > > Yes, Safari shows ALL Unicode Code-Points (i.e., > Characters) as they were intended. > > Here's a couple of examples: > > http://xn--u2g.com > > http://xn--w4h.com > > Interesting enough, the above characters cannot > be typed directly from a key-board, but are shown > correctly by a Browser. > > However as I said, these can only be seen > correctly by the Safari browser. If you use IE, > then the URL's will be shown as PUNYCODE -- M$ > has a "better idea". > > What I also find interesting is that there are no > restrictions for using IDNS names in email > addresses. However, even Apple's Mail program > restricts these to standard ASCII. > > IOW, an email address of tedd@Â.com is perfectly > legal (and will work), but no email application > will allow it. > > Cheers, > > tedd > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com/ > on my Ubuntu box, I can copy and past the â (square-root) character and it displays properly in he address bar on google chome, but it translates it back to the http://xn--19g.com and doesn't show anything else (well... the page loads...LOL) so did you register the xn--19q.com address knowing that it would work/translate to â.com (square-root) ? -- Steve Staples Web Application Developer 519.258.2333 x8414 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
