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Internationalized domain names

Something interesting from djb about internationalized domain names

Imagine registration of wellsfargo.com with the first o replaced by a Greek omicron: wellsfargο.com. In proper typesetting, and in common Unicode fonts for computers, the omicron and o have the same appearance.

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