Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes
by nebul on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:04AM
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My first name contains an accented e, and what the computer will spit out is a crapshoot: é, e, é, é or just a plain blank square. It makes me want to buy an internationalised domain name out of spite.
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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes
by jeroenhd on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:55AM
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Internationalised domain names will display fine because they are punycode that browsers and other clients happen to render as internationalised domains.
E-mail is even worse than web applications at this because even common and popular mail clients can't do UTF-8 in email addresses right (https://www.google.com/search?q="SMTPUTF8"+site%3Adovecot.or...).
Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes
by nebul on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @01:51PM
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In my experience Punycode support in browsers varies greatly depending on the phishing[1] mitigations in place, making them quite unreliable in practice unfortunately.
I'm pleasantly surprised about SMTPUTF8 being a thing though. Yeah nobody uses it, but I thought email had zero UTF-8 support so it's at least better than nothing, I guess.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack#Homograph...
Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes
by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @02:39PM
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SMTPUTF8 is about unicode email addresses. I think, UTF-8 messages have wide support.