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Date: 2025-04-12 12:43:05
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How do browsers decide whether or not to display punycode?

The WHAT-WG URL spec: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#idna

Points to Unicode TR46: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/#Processing

But it also appears that IgnoreInvalidPunycode implementation is not consistent in web engines, per this illuminating discussion that ends in 🤷🏽‍♂️

https://github.com/whatwg/url/issues/821#issuecomment-1973116108

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Posted by: Dietrich Ayala