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Re:OpenBSD disk encryption (2015) by RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:06PM (#12438441)
It's Punycode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

In Firefox, you can force it to always show the encoded form, as HN had, with network.IDN_show_punycode. Not as pretty, but may protect you against homograph attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

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