Changes to IDN in IE7 to now allow mixing of scripts, from IEBlog.

IE7 added support for IDN in Beta 2, and implemented a nice approach to accommodate the IDN spoofing as well.

If a user navigates to an IDN URL and if the scripts that are present in the URL are not part of the user’s configured Accept language, IE7 will convert the URL into Punycode and display it in the address bar.

IE7 also displays the information bar saying that the website address contains characters which cannot be displayed using the current language settings.

Consider the following example where a URL label contains Hang and ASCII (website for LG Korea). IE will now display this URL in Unicode for a user who has added Korean language support, since the non-ASCII script belongs to the Korean language set.

This is really a pretty user experience! Good Job, IE Team!

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