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punycode - an overview by a soylentil

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2025-08-26 01:31:47 from the code is code dept.
Digital Liberty

When this internet’s phone book (DNS) was initially created, it only allowed for a limited set of ASCII characters to be used in host (www) and domain (soylentnews.org) names. With the growth of the internet and its reach to non-English speaking countries however, the need for international domain names that could contain Unicode characters – like á, ț or even す – arose

so what to do? Answer: https://マリウス.com/never-click-on-a-link-that-looks-like-that/ [マリウス.com]

bonus: the example URL used by the article is https://soylentnews.org/ [soylentnews.org]


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