226643 - enable support for internationalized domain names (IDN) (network.enableIDN)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Steffen Wilberg]

We should enable support for internationalized domain names (IDN) by setting
"network.enableIDN" to "true". It's already enabled in Mozilla 1.4 and Netscape
7.1: http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js#608

About IDN: http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/idn/

Comment 1

[Steffen Wilberg]

Attachment: patch

change "network.enableIDN" from "false" to "true".

Comment 2

[Steffen Wilberg]

Comment on attachment 136226 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Brian, r?

Comment 3

[riscky]

Just wondering...(and I know this probally isn't the best place for this type of
wondering) why is it the Mac OS X Firebird builds seem to have IDN enabled set
to false yet IDN names work fine?

Comment 4

[Steffen Wilberg]

Riscky: no idea.

For the history:
all.js used to have duplicate prefs for "network.enableIDN", one set to true,
one to false.
Blake removed the "true" one on 11/07/2002 17:45:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?date=explicit&mindate=11%2F07%2F2002+17%3A45&maxdate=11%2F07%2F2002+17%3A45
In SeaMonkey's all.js, the "false" one was removed by bug 221437 on 10/07/2003
00:04:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?date=explicit&mindate=10%2F7%2F03+00%3A04&maxdate=10%2F7%2F03+00%3A04

Comment 5

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

checked in.