From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Mon Nov 15 2004 - 02:30:50 CST
Hello,
I had written:
> OS | Browser | http://www.əɛ.net/ | http://żółw.pl/
> -------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------
> Win XP | Opera 7.54 | OK | OK
> SP2 +----------------+--------------------+-----------------
> | Netscape 6.2 | not found² | not found
> +----------------+--------------------+-----------------
> | IE 6.0 SP 2 | not found* | not found*
> +----------------+--------------------+-----------------
> | Firefox 1.0 | OK | OK
> -------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------
> Win 98 | Netscape 4.77 | not found¹ | not found
> +----------------+--------------------+-----------------
> | Netscape 6.2.2 | not found² | not found°
> |----------------+--------------------+-----------------
> | IE 5 SP 2 | not found³ | not found
> -------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------
>
>
> ¹ http://www.??.net/
> ² http://www.%C9%99%C9%9B.net/
> ³ http://www./??.net/
> ° http://%c5%bc%c3%b3%c5%82w.pl/
> * Not found on 1st try after IE start,
> IE 6 hung on subsequent tries
Peter Kirk wrote:
> The problem was that the browser was looking for http://www.%c9%99%c9%9b.net/
> rather than http://www.əɛ.net/, in other words exactly the same problem as Otto
> found with Netscape 6.2. The clipboard contained http://www.%c9%99%c9%9b.net/,
> as both Unicode text and basic plain text. There was obviously a problem in how
> Mozilla copied this address to the clipboard.
In my tests, however, the address http://www.əɛ.net/ was pasted correctly
into the respective browser’s address field; only after attempting to
fetch the page, the distorted address appeared, either in the address
field or in the error message (depending on the browser).
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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