August 1, 2006 at 15:51IE7 will be able to digest a mixture of languages
Starting with the second beta version, Internet Explorer 7 supports recording domain names in languages other than English (IDN standard). But after some discussion, the developers decided to change the principles of IDN implementation .
Using multilingual addresses poses a security problem. Attackers can lure users to sites with similar addresses (characters can be exactly the same, but in different encodings they can lead to different sites). If the IE browser detects that the characters belong to another language, then it performs a forced conversion to “punicode” and displays the corresponding message ( screenshot) Previously, in addition to this, another protective measure was applied - a complete ban on mixing characters from different encodings in the address bar. For example, if in the paypal.com address one of the Latin “a's” is replaced with a Cyrillic one, then you can direct the user to a completely different site. Previously, it was forbidden, but now it is really possible to do it, but not in all languages.
This protection measure provoked user protests in countries where mixing characters from different encodings is normal practice and is often found even in company names. IE developers backtracked and promised to allow encoding for some languages, including Korean, Arabic, Ethiopian, Jewish, Thai and 23 other languages (Russian is not on the list). However, the above warning will not be displayed (screenshot ).
The new feature will be implemented in IE7 Release Candidate (after the third beta).
Using multilingual addresses poses a security problem. Attackers can lure users to sites with similar addresses (characters can be exactly the same, but in different encodings they can lead to different sites). If the IE browser detects that the characters belong to another language, then it performs a forced conversion to “punicode” and displays the corresponding message ( screenshot) Previously, in addition to this, another protective measure was applied - a complete ban on mixing characters from different encodings in the address bar. For example, if in the paypal.com address one of the Latin “a's” is replaced with a Cyrillic one, then you can direct the user to a completely different site. Previously, it was forbidden, but now it is really possible to do it, but not in all languages.
This protection measure provoked user protests in countries where mixing characters from different encodings is normal practice and is often found even in company names. IE developers backtracked and promised to allow encoding for some languages, including Korean, Arabic, Ethiopian, Jewish, Thai and 23 other languages (Russian is not on the list). However, the above warning will not be displayed (screenshot ).
The new feature will be implemented in IE7 Release Candidate (after the third beta).