Re: Question on UTF-8 and the standardization of Norwegian letters.

What you're seeing is called punycode. Although HTML supports multiple
encodings, DNS is strictly ASCII, so this is used to encode Unicode inside
of ASCII. Browsers should automatically translate it to Unicode for display.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 8:07 PM Signe Kjosland <signekjosland@gmail.com>
wrote:

> The W3C is said to support the UTF-encoding of html addresses, which is
> understandable.
>
> However, we've repeatedly run into issues with the encoding of our
> Norwegian websites that utilize a different set of characters.
>
> For example, one site's name is forbrukslån.no
> <https://www.xn--forbruksln-95a.no/>, using Norwegian character sets.
> It is then automatically translated into
> https://www.xn--forbruksln-95a.no/.
>
> I do not have the technical skills to discern whether there is a potential
> solution to this, but it's somewhat frustrating to be locked out of the
> UTF-8 system. The optics are not very good when trying to entice visitors.
> One solution is to utilize the <a href=""> encoding, but that is not always
> supported.
>
> Does anyone know at which point there will be a solution to this, or
> whether it's even feasible within today's technological framework?
>
> Thank you
>
> Signe K.
>