Forum issue. Links to international domain names broken.

Heater.

Forum does not like URLs containing International Domain Names. Like http://2π.net

Electrodude

I don't like them either.

I consider googling known domains instead of just typing them in an unspeakable crime, but stupid unicode domains force even me to do it!

Heater.

Wait a minute. Are you suggesting there is something stupid about "2" or "π" or what?

Now, the idea is that having posted the 2π.net domain name here, you never have to worry about typing it (Should you ever want to). Or God forbid googling it. Just bookmark it. Sadly that does not work. Hence my bug report here.

Electrodude

Nothing is stupid about "2" or "π". It's just that they shouldn't be in something I'm supposed to be able to type.

Obviously unicode domain names should be OK for people who have those kinds of keys on their keyboards, but a primarily English website should only be allowed to have English characters in its domain.

I access my bookmarks by typing in part of what I want and then hoping the fact that it's bookmarked will make it show up in the commonly used addresses list below the URL bar. I can't do that with this domain.


I dare you to register a domain containing left-to-right text, then a right-to-left mark, then right-to-left text, then a left-to-right mark, and finally more left-to-right text, if it's allowed (I sure hope not!).

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

Heater,

Are you running a site about debt consolidation? Because that's what I get:

http://www.twopi.com/

-Phil

RDL2004

Phil,

Unless you have some kind of searching from the address bar enabled, you should either go to the correct site or get an error message from the browser. Having search from the address bar enabled is generally a bad idea if it can take you directly to a web site and not to a search results page from your default search engine.

Heater.

Electrodude,

Nothing is stupid about "2" or "π". It's just that they shouldn't be in something I'm supposed to be able to type.

You are not supposed to type it. You are supposed to click on it. That is why I'm complaining international domain names links are busted here.

I access my bookmarks by typing in part of what I want

Good point. In this case though typing "2" should get you most of the way there.

I dare you to register a domain containing left-to-right text, then a right-to-left mark, then right-to-left text, then a left-to-right mark, and finally more left-to-right text, if it's allowed (I sure hope not!).

Ha hah! Evil grin. Turns out entering Arabic into Godaddy's domain search box can return available domain names. Other registrars I tried did not like IDNs much.

However a entering a mixed "direction" name crashes the Javascript on Godaddy's page

For example فففa

Turns out IDN's are not allowed to have this anyway.