> This is a very anglocentric view of the internet.

Yes, it was. The grandparent is literally saying that, as an American, punycode is primarily a risk to them, not a feature.

> Most of the problems with the full unicode set can be sidestepped by a combination of...

By a combination of 4 different, complicated things that most technical users know little about and non-technical users know nothing about? And problems still remain? That doesn't bode well.

I'm no anglocentrist, I read and write in Japanese and I'm acutely aware of the technical and social problems and motivations for punycode.

>Cyrillic apple.com is one of the few cases where it is still problematic

One of the many, you mean. Punycode has actually been implemented in several places and rolled back because the problems are so severe.

It is anglocentric and valid. I live in a country of over 300 million people almost all of which speak English. Almost half the people on the internet at present speak English and virtually all the content I could possibly want to consume is available in a non unicode domain.

For me and 300 million users avoiding malicious attempts at spoofing is important. Setting show punycode to true enables me to view pages in international domains in case I need to do this while preventing me from being exploited.

Its at present the best option for hundreds of millions of people.

Its not shortsighted or racist to acknowledge different populations of users have different needs.

Edit: In case people can't be bothered to read it should be obvious that I am advocating for shipping with show punycode true for the English US version of firefox.