IE7 and language preferences wrt IDN

Current text says:

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Internet Explorer 7 shows the address as punycode if one of the following conditions is true:

    * The domain name contains a character that does not occur in the languages included in the user's language preferences. For example, bäcker.com will not work if your language preferences include only English, but will work if you have, say, German or Hungarian in your preferences (because the 'ä' character is used in those languages).

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After some testing and discussion on the GEO telecon, with Russ Rolfe of Microsoft present, we suspect that the text will probably need to read:

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Internet Explorer 7 shows the address as punycode if one of the following conditions is true:

    * The domain name contains a character from a script that is not used for the languages included in the user's language preferences. Languages that use the Latin script are split into English (ASCII only) and others (for which any non-ASCII Latin character is valid). For example, bäcker.com will not work if your language preferences include only English, but will work if you have, say, German or French in your preferences.

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Russ is asking around in Microsoft to get further clarification.

RI


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Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
 
http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
http://www.w3.org/International/
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