- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:56:10 +0000
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>
Dan Brickley wrote: > > Najib Tounsi wrote: >> >> Hi Richard, >> >> To verify a click on an Arabic IDN, here is one which point to a server: >> http://المدرسة.المحمدية.للمهندسين.emi.ac.ma/ > > Useful example, thanks... > > FWIW... clicking on this (perfectly displayed) link in my Thunderbird > email client, v2beta2 gives an error via > > http://%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%b3%d8%a9.%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a9.%d9%84%d9%84%d9%85%d9%87%d9%86%d8%af%d8%b3%d9%8a%d9%86.emi.ac.ma/ > > > "Server not found .... Firefox can't find the server at > %d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%b3%d8%a9.%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a9.%d9%84%d9%84%d9%85%d9%87%d9%86%d8%af%d8%b3%d9%8a%d9%86.emi.ac.ma." > > > However... Yes, because the href attibute contains the escaped-sequence version of non-ascii characters. Created by Thunderbird. It is that escaped sequence which is sent instead of punicode. Some HTML authoring tools (NVU) convert automatically non-ascii characters into %xx in the href attibute. %xx is legal, but not implemented by browsers. If you copy/paste the IRI into your address bar, it works. > >> It is combined with emi.ac.ma to run within our DNS server. >> >> You can also link to it from the page: >> http://www.emi.ac.ma/ntounsi/iri-emi.html > > The link in that page works just fine, That's why I gave that page, where I've put manually the native IRI in the href attribute. Najib > Firefox 2.0.0.3, in the same browser which Thunderbird incorrectly > invokes above. > > Maybe this behaviour is well-known... > > Dan > >
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