At 11:57 AM -0500 1/10/11, Steve Staples wrote:
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 11:39 -0500, tedd wrote:
> >>>For example --
>>>
>>>http://xn--19g.com
>>>
> >>>-- is square-root dot com.
on my Ubuntu box, I can copy and past the ? (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 ?.com (square-root) ?
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Steve Staples
Steve:
When I was associated with the IDNS WG (not a
member), there came a time where the "powers that
be" wanted to "try out" their solutions, namely
PUNYCODE. As such, we were allowed to register
IDNS domain names on a trial basis. The
conditions of the trial were that we could
register any IDNS we wanted (at $100 a pop) and
if at anytime over the following year our names
caused problems, then we would forfeit our names
without compensation. In short, a $100 per-name
bet!
At that time, I registered almost 30 names.
Fortunately, all of my names passed and I was
permitted to keep them. Unfortunately, all
browser manufactures (except Safari) negated some
of the work done by the IDNS WG and as a result
PUNYCODE is shown instead of the actual
characters intended.
I continue to hold on to my domain names because
I believe that the PUNYCODE problem will be
resolved someday and my single character domain
names will be valuable. Please realize that
single character ASCII characters are estimated
to sell for over a million dollars each -- you
may want to review this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/28/tech/main1080245.shtml
In any event, this is out of the main stream of
PHP. However, it should just be noted that
Unicode characters, which started this thread,
are very involved and many software manufactures
are not implementing solutions correctly. In
contrast, the PHP community has provided numerous
Multibyte String Functions (mb_) for dealing with
Unicode. So, our PHP applications can correctly
deal with what Unicode provides that are far
exceed simple ASCII.
Cheers,
tedd
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