Re: For review: An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses

Hi Martin,

Martin Duerst wrote:
> At 06:48 07/03/27, Michael Monaghan wrote:
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>> wrt http://www.w3.org/International/tests/test-idn-display-1:
>>
>> Near the top it says:
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>> "Run each test twice. First with only en or en-US listed in the browser language preferences, and secondly with the following additional languages in the preferences: Russian, Japanese, German, Greek, Hindi, Armenian, Thai and 'am' (user defined code for Amharic)...."
>>     
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> Richard - "user defined code" may be highly misleading. "am" is not
> a user defined code, it is defined by ISO 639. It is just not
> selectable from the menu in IE, right? I hope you can clarify
> this in the text.
>
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>> Also, did you see Najib's email of March 7? - He made the point that even for some 'supported' TLDs, Firefox displays Arabic & Hebrew domain names in punycode.
>> Yet, if you mix some Latin characters with the Arabic [and possibly Hebrew] domain names, they render fine... peculiar.
>>     
>
> Does such a mixture include labels that contain both Latin and RTL
> characters, or are the scripts separated by dots? In the former
> case, this would be even more peculiar, because such labels
> (mixing RTL and LTR characters) are illegal in IDN.
>   
It  is one label that is a mixture of RTL end LTR chars. It is invalid 
of course.
I've noted that not all browsers answer it is invalid.
Here are the tests (http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/IDNs/Issue2.html)

In fact, in a mail I sent before, it was question about:
- Arabic & Hebrew IDNs that are not displayed as claimed by Firefox. 
.museum TLD is trusted (Firefox displays IDNs in native) but in punycode 
for Arabic & Hebrew. (http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/IDNs/Issue1.html)
- IDNs with %xx in links (http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/IDNs/Issue3.html)
Browsers accept links (href attribute) with IDNs in native and punycode 
but not in escaped notation.
Are %xx encoding a valide notation  for IDNs?

Regards, Najib

> Regards,    Martin.
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