From: Mark Leisher (mleisher@crl.NMSU.Edu)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2005 - 09:35:43 CST
Adam Twardoch wrote:
> From: "Mark Leisher" <mleisher@crl.NMSU.Edu>
>
>> The first time a URL is seen, provide a drop-down list of homographic
>> variants to choose from and let the user determine the valid version.
>> The chosen form is then used by default from then on.
>
>
> Demanding from the user that he/she needs to know and understand the
> difference between the Kurdish Q and the English Q is defintiely asking
> WAY too much from the user.
Users looking at the punycode forms of the homographic variants won't have a
problem distinguishing between the two.
Of course this doesn't really solve the problem. Only simple differences are
going to be clear to an average user looking at punycode encoded URL's.
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