883796 - support IDNA2008 for .be

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 479520

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Maarten Bosteels]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.93 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I entered "www.straße.be" in the address bar.




Actual results:

Firefox translates this address to www.strasse.be and shows the content of www.strasse.be

Firefox translates 'ß' into 'ss' instead of treating it as an IDN codepoint.


Expected results:

Firefox should have shown the content of www.xn--strae-oqa.be and kept the original input in the address bar.

Firefox should implement IDNA2008 for TLD's that use it.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Please see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html and particularly https://wiki.mozilla.org/IDN_Display_Algorithm#Transition for some background about why this is possibly expected behaviour. However, bug 722299 which according to that wikipage implemented non-whitelist support is supposed to be fixed in Firefox 22, which will be released in about a week. However, I can still reproduce this issue in 22 beta and even 24 nightlies (and naively, would say that ß and stra-e are in the same script), so I am confused. CC-ing gerv who might know more.

Comment 2

[Maarten Bosteels]

Please see 868201 where I requested to add .be to the IDN whitelist.

Comment 3

[Maarten Bosteels]

Plase see bug 868201 where I requested to add .be to the IDN whitelist.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Our IDNA2008 support is tracked in bug 479520 . Is this bug a duplicate of that one, or is there more to it?

Gerv

Comment 5

[Maarten Bosteels]

Depending on how bug 479520 will be implemented, this one is a duplicate of that bug .
Will firefox keep a list of TLD's that implement IDNA2008 ?

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I expect us to turn on IDNA2008 unconditionally, but that's subject to testing.

Gerv