Gregory's ServerI made a thing. Please do not hesitate to point me in the direction of more forms to fill. https://wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.com
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 @jstepien @daveliepmann i think this isn't going to be a "love, live, laugh" inspirational thing  @jstepien it's goddamn frustrating isn't it, not too mention insulting. I see the Co-operative Bank here in the UK have made zero progress on this since I stumbled on it ~10 years ago. 🙄 To save you the trouble, I just got two steps into the "open new account" process before this happened: "The name entered is invalid."   @naught101 @jstepien that’s just how unicode urls are encoded, yes it is utterly miserable @naught101 @jstepien i don’t understand it either, as i see it you have absolutely no chance of understanding what’s going on in a url like that  @Life_is @naught101 @jstepien yeah, like there would have been a way to make it at least approximately human-readable and instead they chose… this 🥴 @skye @Life_is @naught101 @jstepien As far as I understand, basically to prevent fishing by using visually indistinguishable letters (apple\.com vs аpple\.com). @arina @skye @naught101 @jstepien Na. The number of allowed unicode codepoints is limited for that reason. The coding of the allowed codepoints could still be more readable. But the length of domain names is limited (30 or 35 bytes AFAIK), so shortness was more important than readability. Even more important for non-latin writing system like CJK, cyrillic, greek, arabic, hebrew, etc. @naught101 @jstepien it's an utf-8 domain name, some applications show some kind of encoding instead of the actual characters  @petitmote @jstepien right, but I would have expected it to look something like stXXXXpieXXXX.com or something @naught101 @jstepien the norm is really weird 😅 non ascii domains will start with xn--, for the rest I don't know   @jstepien     @jstepien the people who made those forms should be forced to zażółć gęślą jażń all day long @jstepien shit’s real. I’ve once been in the receiving end of a « security audit » for our website, and the auditor found a ✌️flaw ✌️in that we were accepting too wide a range of characters for name fields. The recommendation was to restrict to the basic [A-Za-z] set and « a few accents so that covers most names everywhere » lol In fact we should flatly forbid strings IMO.    @jstepien How dare you live in a country not limited to ASCII? 🤣 No language ever needs Hëävy Mętål Ümlãūts, yæh? |
@jstepien i love this