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by rakic 2291 days ago
You might be interested in this — an example where the company logo is the domain name, and vice versa:

https://xn--bj8a.com (ꑮ.com)

(Safari on macOS and iOS displays the symbol in the address bar.)
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techslave 2291 days ago
huh. that’s an attack other browsers have fixed by using punycode. i wonder does safari have blacklist for homoglyphs but renders others as the intended glyph.
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rakic 2291 days ago
The whitelist for Safari on macOS is kept in a text file entitled IDNScriptWhiteList.txt, located at /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/Current/Resources

ꑮ is from Yi script, which is obviously whitelisted.

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