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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by teeray on Monday October 03, 2022 @10:40PM (#33076199)
www.google.com [a ton of spaces that HN won’t let me type] jknotgoogle.com
Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by notamy on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:03AM (#33081383)
Domain registration already has a lot of rules around length, what characters can be where in the domain name (ex. no hyphens as the very first/last characters), ... I'm sure it'd be trivial to have a "no-repeating-spaces" rule or similar.
Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by karatinversion on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:42AM (#33082004)
google.com [spaces] pwned.evilcorp.com it is
Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by mc32 on Monday October 03, 2022 @10:45PM (#33076223)
I just want a single contiguous space character so I don't have to suppress the space or substitute with an alternate character --also URL boxes can make it conspicuously obvious for better UI. And while they're at it, allow & (ampersand).
Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by andrewxhonson on Monday October 03, 2022 @11:47PM (#33076527)
Maybe the location bar should accept the space but strip it? That would work for input if not reading the URL. Maybe only allowing single consecutive spaces to avoid the address spoofing example. I could go for that.

I would love & natively though. For my wedding (bride&groom.com for example) I looked into faking it with punycode but nothing was close enough, and anything other than an ampersand would have been too hard to input.

Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by armchairhacker on Monday October 03, 2022 @10:55PM (#33076269)
good think hyperlinks are typically underlined so there will be a large training line at the end
Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by astine on Monday October 03, 2022 @11:16PM (#33076368)
Unless someone turns off the underlining with a stylesheet.
Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by thatguy0900 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:31AM (#33080915)
Google search urls are typically long enough that they are shortened by ... At least on mobile