- From: Alexandre Alapetite <alexandre@alapetite.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:52:34 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Hello, The W3C Markup Validation Service apparently does not accept Internationalised Domain Names in its URL field. It returns an error 500 "Bad hostname" and a message "Sorry! This document can not be checked". Currently, the validator transforms the domain part of an URL in Unicode UTF-8, while the correct transformation of the domain is in punycode (RFC 3492). You can find some examples of such Internationalised DNS here: http://www.w3.org/International/tests/test-idn.html (My test was with some French characters with accents such as 'é' in a subdomain) Another reference of interest: "An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses" http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/ All modern browsers I tested (Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.) support this in their current version. All the best, Alexandre http://alexandre.alapetite.fr
Received on Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:52:37 UTC