Re: [I18nrp] Conservatism principle doesn't go far enough

Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> Sun, 03 February 2019 04:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [I18nrp] Conservatism principle doesn't go far enough
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I was just pointing out an interesting document (the Chrome rules for
displaying URLs ) that covers material in more detail than RFC 3987 and
isn't currently part of the WHATWG "living standard" for URLs.
As far as it goes, people choosing names don't know how the world's
population with their raft of OS'es and browsers will behave. They might not
be idiots, just not informed.

One rule in the document calls for normalizing the Unicode as a first step. 
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/security/url_di
splay_guidelines/url_display_guidelines.md#display-urls-in-canonical-form 

But I think this is counter-productive and wrong. If you're showing someone
a URL which is not in normal form, normalization will lose this critical
information. Better to just display the punicode for any unnormalized
domains.

I'd submit an issue but I can't figure out where.