5225 2007-10-24 17:24:04 +0000 Support for Internationalised Domain Names 2009-08-17 12:40:19 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator check HEAD PC All NEW http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric.alapetite.fr P2 normal --- 1 alexandre.alapetite dave.null aaz duerst ot www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 17389 0 alexandre.alapetite 2007-10-24 17:24:04 +0000 Copy from http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2007Mar/0090.html The W3C Markup Validation Service apparently does not accept Internationalised Domain Names in its URL field. It returns an error 500 "Bad hostname" and a message "Sorry! This document can not be checked". Currently, the validator transforms the domain part of an URL in Unicode UTF-8, while the correct transformation of the domain is in punycode (RFC 3492). You can find some examples of such Internationalised DNS here: http://www.w3.org/International/tests/test-idn.html (My test was with some French characters with accents such as 'é' in a subdomain) Another reference of interest: "An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses" http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/ All modern browsers I tested (Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.) support this in their current version. All the best, Alexandre http://alexandre.alapetite.fr 26486 1 ylafon 2009-08-17 12:40:19 +0000 *** Bug 7162 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***