Implement new IDNA2008 standards

• Component: New Bugs
• Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED

[Michael]

Hello,

The .de NIC (denic.de) will implement IDNA2008 from 2010-11-16 onwards,
especially allowing for ß (\u00df) in domain names. Hence, the automatic
translation of ß to ss may result in looking up the wrong domain name, allowing
for spoofing attacks.
(DENIC will run a sunrise period (2010-10-26 to 2010-11-15) during which
holders of domains with ss will be allowed top register the respective ß domain
in advance.)

http://www.denic.de/en/domains/internationalized-domain-names/sharp-s.html

ß and ss are not exchangable in German. ss instead of ß is just a makeshift. Germans expect ß to usually just work if
umlauts work (which already do for a while).


Regards

Michael

[Ahmad Saleem]

Sure, it would have been done.

[Anne van Kesteren]

Yeah, this has been fixed for a while. There will likely be some further tweaks around Bidi, but that shouldn't impact .de NIC and is best tracked in a new bug once Unicode makes the relevant changes in UTS46 and the URL Standard adopts them.