[LINK] Dot Asia a good idea?

[Kim Davies]

Quoting Kim Holburn on Tuesday October 09, 2007:
| Actually, I get correct rendering in Safari (which I rarely use) but  
| not in Firefox:
| 
| <http://preview.tinyurl.com/29n82l>
| <http://preview.tinyurl.com/ywad8y>

At the risk of getting in minutiae that may not interest our
predominantly English speaking audience, the Safari rendering you are
seeing has noticeable issues. Essentially in both Arabic and Hindi it
is not composing the characters correctly (or at all). In this respect,
Firefox is getting it right in Arabic.

Here is how they _should_ look:

   http://beta.iana.org/_util/render-idn?d=xn--kgbechtv
   http://beta.iana.org/_util/render-idn?d=xn--hgbk6aj7f53bba
   http://beta.iana.org/_util/render-idn?d=xn--11b5bs3a9aj6g

All three should look like scripts that run into each other, like
cursive writing. Safari is not combining the Arabic together, and has
issues in the middle of the Hindi label.

I guess, in summary, this is exactly why these are test domains. :-)

kim