Will internet ever have localized unicoded domain-names other than english ?
Is that really possible ? what are the obstacles that will come across in achieving this ? what problems will arise and what are the possible solutions of those problems ?
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It already does: Internationalized domain names (supported in IE7, Firefox and pretty much every major browser to-date). The biggest thing blocking widespread adoption is probably the potential for spoofing:
The use of Unicode in domain names makes it potentially easier to spoof web sites visited by World Wide Web users as the visual representation of an IDN string in a web browser may appear identical to another, depending on the font used. For example, Unicode character U+0430, Cyrillic small letter a, can look identical to Unicode character U+0061, Latin small letter a, used in English.
Dean Harding
2010-06-25 06:55:25
I think some/many browsers display the ASCII form (xn--) of an IDN with a mixed alphabet to avoid the spoofing problem.
Charles
2010-06-25 06:56:35
@Charles: yes, it depends on the browser I think... the implementations differ between each of them (as usual!)
Dean Harding
2010-06-25 07:00:01
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http://президент.рф/ is working in my Chrome, but in addressbar it's look like http://xn--d1abbgf6aiiy.xn--p1ai/
Anatolk
2010-06-25 08:40:21