Re: new TLDs and extended domain names.

David Segall <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Roedy Green <see_website@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
have a look at http://idn.icann.org/#Things_to_test
for some of the new sorts of names

OK, I went there. How can I tell if my browser is displaying the sites
correctly. "It's all Greek to me".

Actually, if it *really* looks like Greek (or Japanese, or whatever),
with consistent use of a non-English character set, I'd say that
there's a good chance that it's behaving correctly.

If it's displaying a bunch of little boxes instead of characters, but
the links do work, that probably indicates that your browser groks the
encoding, but your system doesn't have the font it needs to display
the text properly.

If it shows up as a bunch of gibberish with English characters, then
your browser probably isn't understanding the encoding.

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