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Bug 19283 - Investigate IDNA2003 separators
Summary: Investigate IDNA2003 separators
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18910
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: URL (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows 3.1
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Anne
QA Contact: sideshowbarker+urlspec
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Reported: 2012-10-05 08:47 UTC by Mathias Bynens
Modified: 2012-12-21 14:30 UTC (History)
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Description Mathias Bynens 2012-10-05 08:47:56 UTC 
Continuing the discussion in https://github.com/bestiejs/punycode.js/issues/11, I wrote a simple test that sets URLs with IDNA2003 separators U+002E, U+3002, U+FF0E, U+FF61 as the `src` of an `iframe` element in memory, and then returns the resulting normalized `src`.

Chrome, Safari, Firefox:

http://xn--maana-pta.com/
http://xn--maana-pta.com/
http://xn--maana-pta.com/
http://xn--maana-pta.com/

Opera:

http://mañana.com/
http://mañana.com/
http://mañana.com/
http://mañana.com/

It seems all browsers tested so far support these separators for backwards compatibility. I haven’t tested IE yet, or older versions of the other browsers.
Comment 1 Mathias Bynens 2012-10-05 08:51:39 UTC 
Uploading the attachment failed for some reason, so I’ve uploaded the test here: http://mathias.html5.org/tests/url/idna2003-separators/
Comment 2 Mathias Bynens 2012-10-05 12:47:39 UTC 
I’ve updated the test so that it displays PASS if the browser supports IDNA2003 separators and FAIL otherwise.

IE9 supports these separators as well, so it looks like they should be included in the URL spec.
Comment 3 Anne 2012-12-21 14:30:58 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 18910 ***