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August 12, 2014
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3 comments :

Bashar said...

I did several tests on google apps using complete idn.idn domain and found several findings that are bugs and doesn't work as expected.

Where can i share/post these tests results to be resolved by GApps team?

August 12, 2014 at 2:13 PM
Anonymous said...

Why did you go for Highly Restrictive over Moderately Restrictive? Firefox uses Moderately Restrictive when deciding whether to display IDN domain names - https://wiki.mozilla.org/IDN_Display_Algorithm - and Chrome seems interested in following that lead - https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=336973 .

We chose moderately restrictive because many communities use Latin letters as well as their own orthographies; there are loads of valid uses for such combinations.

A discrepancy here means that someone could buy a domain name and use it fine for a website, but be unable to use it for email if they want to communicate with Gmail users. That would be a nasty surprise.

Gerv

August 12, 2014 at 8:12 PM
Unknown said...

So essentially Gmail will reject an email copy of this very post?
Good thing you didn't update Blogger/Blogspot with the same "feature" too, right?

You're ejecting security discussions about Unicode.

You're rejecting a lot of mathematical equations.

And you're also rejecting numerous other perfectly valid uses like the HλLF-LIFE example shown in the Unicode Consortium's page you linked to.
"cool looking" combinations are sometimes used just for that.

August 13, 2014 at 12:40 PM

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