URIs and dots

[Erik van der Poel]

Yes, URIs use %-escaping and Opera supports %-escaped UTF-8 in the host name.

Interestingly, the browsers are inconsistent when it comes to
unescaping the host name before applying the IDNA process. MSIE 7 and
Opera 9 both end up with xn--kkr.com when the HTML says:

<a href="http://&#x5341;%2Ecom">hello</a>

Firefox 2 ends up with xn--%2ecom-9b5j while Safari 3 ends up with
xn--.com-9b5j. I've already filed a bug report for Safari. Gervase,
would you like me to file one for Firefox too?

Erik

2008/1/15 Martin Duerst <duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp>:
> At 10:19 08/01/15, Mark Davis wrote:
>
> >Take a look at the following table, for example:
> >
> >  Link Firefox IE7
> >0 <a href="<http://b%C3%BCcher.de/>http://bテシcher.de"> works works
> >1 <a href="<http://b%C3%BCcher.de/>http://Bテシcher.de"> works works
> >2 <a href="<http://b%C3%BCcher.de/>http://xn--bcher-kva.de"> works works
> >3 <a href="<http://b%c3%bccher.de/>http://B%C3%BCcher.de"> doesn't doesn't
>
> Interestingly enough, 3 is part of RFC 3986 (yes, URI, NOT IRI),
> also known as STD66. So it will be supported sooner or later.
> (Opera already supports it).
>
> Regards,    Martin.
>
>
> #-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
> #-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
>
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