IDNA online tool

Mark Davis mark at macchiato.com
Fri Apr 10 06:06:47 CEST 2009


Just tossed in the tooltips (a 2 line change).

Mark


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 20:48, Mark Davis <mark at macchiato.com> wrote:

> The M-Label string is \uFECB\uFEAE\uFE91\uFEF2
> The U-Label string is \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064A
>
> The M-Label does map to the U-Label (in IDNA, and in IDNAbis unless we
> restrict the mapping to exclude these characters).
>
> Every conformant browser, where fonts are available, should give
> essentially the same rendering for both strings (which is why they are
> mapped together by NFKC). On Windows, it works properly for IE, Chrome,
> Firefox, Safari. On the Mac it works properly with Safari and Firefox.
> (These are on my systems, with up-to-date browsers.) I haven't tried on my
> work Linux system.
> In your case, there is something wrong with your browser; if you are seeing
> them in reverse order then the BIDI implementation is broken in your
> browser.
>
> What I can do is display the hex codes in a tooltip, so that people can see
> any underlying differences.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 19:53, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp>wrote:
>
>> Hello Mark,
>>
>> The last example is confusing, as the M-Label and the U-Label column
>> show the characters in exactly reversed order, but resulting in the same
>> label.
>>
>> Regards,   Martin.
>>
>> On 2009/04/10 4:09, Mark Davis wrote:
>> > I took the program I talked about last week, and made an online tool for
>> > IDNA, at http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/idna.jsp.
>>
>>
>> --
>> #-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
>> #-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp   mailto:duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
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