Re: [idn] Mac OS X Safari and IDN spoofing

Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org> Fri, 25 March 2005 15:20 UTC

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James Seng wrote:
> i thought the ideas they have was pretty interesting
> 
> choose the scripts you use most often that you like to display normally 
> but otherwise, will display in punycode.

What sort of effect do you think it will have on IDN acceptance and use 
if companies using IDN domains know that their domain name will display 
as gobbledygook in an unknown percentage of their customer's browsers?

Gerv