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by helb 2528 days ago
How does it cope with non-ASCII characters and various fonts? Suppose you had "ɡoogle.com" instead of "gooble.com" in that demo video (the first "g" is not a regular "g", but " U+0261 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G")… Browsers tend to show IDN names in the "xn--…" punycode format, but not always.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

https://unicode.org/cldr/utility/confusables.jsp?a=google&r=...

https://ma.ttias.be/show-idn-punycode-firefox-avoid-phishing...