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

• MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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      • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        …and just how important is it to render foreign domains properly?

        This is such a western-centric take, and it makes me quite sad…

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