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0 pointsbelorn8y ago0 comments

Could you explain what fixed/immune means? Is it only the confusable characters, ie characters that are visually identical or near-identical to latin characters, that is getting the punycode treatment?

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H4CK3RM4N8y ago

I think IE and Safari just don't support Unicode in domains.

paulddraper8y ago

I'm not sure the nature of Chrome's fix, but IE and Safari don't support punycode.

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0 pointsbelorn8y ago0 comments

Could you explain what fixed/immune means? Is it only the confusable characters, ie characters that are visually identical or near-identical to latin characters, that is getting the punycode treatment?

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H4CK3RM4N8y ago

I think IE and Safari just don't support Unicode in domains.

paulddraper8y ago

I'm not sure the nature of Chrome's fix, but IE and Safari don't support punycode.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse