385110 - IDN displayed in ACE format in location bar

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Charles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.4

When you open an international domain name in Firefox, as soon as you hit "Enter",  what you typed turn into the ACE format instead of keeping the typed address. So, if you type: http://www.tchêbian.com, Firefox will display: http://www.xn--tchbian-lya.com, which is rather unaesthetic.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type http://www.tchêbian.com in the location bar
2. Hit "Enter"
Actual Results:  
Firefox displays http://www.xn--tchbian-lya.com in the location bar.

Expected Results:  
Keep http://www.tchêbian.com as is in the location bar.

More info on the ACE format: http://sedo.com/idn/

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html for an explanation of why we display .com IDNs in punycode, and will until the registrar has a published policy to prevent registrations like http://www.pаypal.com