Curious

[andrewducker]

http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر

So, international DNS has gone live. Does everyone see this properly? And does it work for them?

Interestingly, I found it quite tricky to copy/paste as the text goes right to left, while the http goes left to right...

Comments

[adq.livejournal.com]

Works onscreen and clicking from your LJ page shows the "raw" version not arabic in FF's URL bar. Didn't work clicking through from google reader though.

This is 'cos this IDN has not been "whitelisted" in my firefox settings (I have a vague memory of firefox implementing this to prevent scammers using fake IDNs which use unicode characters which "look" like others)

If you go to "about:config", add a boolean called "network.IDN.whitelist.xn--wgbh1c" set to true and restart firefox, it shows it in arabic in the URL bar.

[adq.livejournal.com]

Actually, are you not missing a bit off the URL? Shouldn't it be:

http://موقع.وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/

... you've only got one '.' character in the one above...

[adq.livejournal.com]

Ah no - its just something funky about firefox and clicking on it... clicking doesn't work for me.... sometimes..... but if I copy+paste into the URL bar, your original URL does work.

[andrewducker]

I copied/pasted it from the place I originally saw it (Hacker News, I believe).

And cheers for the about:config thing. That worked a treat!