Dang. Is there an equivalent Firefox add-on that checks for this stuff?
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Successful_Try543@feddit.org 5 weeks agoRecently it has become a problem that optical twins of legit URLs exist, where some letters have been replaced by alike letters from different alphabets, see e.g. the list in this link.
joshchandra@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
tyler@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Ff shows punycode. The article is quite old.
joshchandra@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I don’t even understand what it is, really; do you have an example of it in action?
tyler@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
🌽.ws
Should transform to 🌽.ws when you click it. The
xn—is the punycode prefix.Here’s how Punycode works:
Unicode characters are first converted into a series of code points, which are represented as a series of numbers. The code points are then converted into a series of ASCII characters, using a specific algorithm. The ASCII characters are then prepended with “xn–”, which is a special prefix that indicates that the following characters are encoded in Punycode.
For example, the Unicode character 快 (which means fast in Chinese) is represented as the code point “U+5FEB”. This code point is then converted into the ASCII characters “2s5v”, which is prepended with the “xn–” prefix to give us “xn–2s5v”. This can then be used as part of a domain name.
When the domain name is displayed to a user, the Punycode is converted back into Unicode characters, so that the user sees the original characters rather than the encoded version. This allows users to use and read domain names in their native scripts, even if their computer or device doesn’t support those scripts.
Docker@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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How can the configuration be done on the Android phone ?
tyler@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure ff shows punycode automatically. I’ve never had to touch it at least and I get punycode.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Tbf, the article is from 2018. It possibly has changed in the meantime.