Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That)

asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is how it’s supposed to look, wish Lemmy/Voyager did a better job here:

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  • MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I assume it’s done that way to prevent an IDN homograph attack.

    For example if I sent you a link to “gооgle.com” you’d be like, sure. Except that isn’t a link to “google” it’s a link to “xn–ggle-55da.com”.

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    • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      While that’s a reasonable take, I think you could selectively render domains in non-latin scripts while blacklisting those greek/cyrillic letters that match latin ones, falling back to the “xn–xxx.com” formatting. Though I guess that would be a lot harder.

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      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Though I guess that would be a lot harder.

        From the devs’ perspective, the relevant question will be this: How hard is it to map out all the lookalikes, and just how important is it to render foreign domains properly?"

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• infeeeee@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nothing special, it’s that’s how urls with unicode, non ascii chatacters look like. It’s called punycode, more info: en.wikipedia.org/…/Internationalized_domain_name

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They have such a custom site. In a good way. Works well with RSS :)

  https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/index.xml

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