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[nycphp-talk] somewhat OT Re: validating proper name capitalization

Tedd Sperling tedd.sperling at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 11:49:00 EDT 2011


On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:

> on 9/27/2011 10:56 AM Rukbat said the following:
>> On 9/24/2011 1:51 PM, Chris Snyder wrote:
>>> I hope you renamed your company •.com or similar!
>> Try http://xn--nvg.com/ (That's punycode for the dot.)
> 
> It's for sale:
> http://symboldomains.com/symbol-domains-for-sale.html
> 
> I note that on Win7+FF and Win7+Chrome, none of those domains appear in the address bar; they've all been punycoded.
> 
> Damn, if I still used Macsyma, I'd want  http://xn--d9g.com.
> (And yes, I got  xn--3-6mb.com for my company.)
> 
> ObPHP:  how *do* you deal with these types of things in $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']?
> 
> //jbaltz
> -- 
> jerry b. altzman | jbaltz at altzman.com | www.jbaltz.com | twitter:@lorvax

jerry:

How do I deal with the PUNYCODE problem? I live with it hoping that someday M$ (and others) will find a solution to the homographic problem that they envision by showing PUNYCODE instead of showing what the IDNS WG wanted.

Cheers,

tedd

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