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jonas-w
on July 24, 2023
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Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
HN automatically converts these urls to punycode, maybe this is a bug and it automatically converts everything to punycode even though it doesn't make sense?
yreg
on July 24, 2023
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It's unrelated to HN. Copy pasting 𝕏.com into the address bar still leads to x.com
related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
mkl
on July 24, 2023
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I already mentioned that, and it's not what they mean. Hover your mouse over a
https://xn--971h.com
link in a comment on HN and notice that it's pointing to
https://x.com
. This does seem to be an HN thing; see here:
https://jsfiddle.net/rtfhejdy/
mkl
on July 24, 2023
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I think so. Then I'm not right about the punycode encoding of 𝕏.com - it's that it isn't even needed. I've emailed dang about it.
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