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Re:Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) by rakic on Saturday March 14, 2020 @05:49PM (#22578990)
You might be interested in this — an example where the company logo is the domain name, and vice versa:

https://xn--bj8a.com (ꑮ.com)

(Safari on macOS and iOS displays the symbol in the address bar.)

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Re:Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) by techslave on Saturday March 14, 2020 @06:12PM (#22579107)
huh. that’s an attack other browsers have fixed by using punycode. i wonder does safari have blacklist for homoglyphs but renders others as the intended glyph.
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Re:Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) by rakic on Saturday March 14, 2020 @06:48PM (#22579345)
The whitelist for Safari on macOS is kept in a text file entitled IDNScriptWhiteList.txt, located at /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/Current/Resources

ꑮ is from Yi script, which is obviously whitelisted.

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