Re: IE7 and language preferences wrt IDN

That matches my understanding from Michel also.

Mark

On 2/13/07, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> wrote:
>
>
> Current text says:
>
> ===========
>
> 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).
>
> ==========
>
> 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:
>
> ===========
>
> 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.
>
> ==========
>
> Russ is asking around in Microsoft to get further clarification.
>
> RI
>
>
> ============
> Richard Ishida
> Internationalization Lead
> W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
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