James: Most likely you're encountering a font issue, rather than a unicode issue. It's entirely possible that the characters are being interpreted correctly, but the browser is using a font that doesn't support those characters.
Also, some browsers have odd support for rendering unicode (non-ascii) urls, for "security" reasons. Both chrome and firefox under Windows 7 render http://www.☃.net/<http://www.xn--n3h.net/> as http://www.xn--n3h.net/ which is the ascii domain encoding (called punycode or idna) of the snowman unicode character. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:42 PM, James Lin <james_...@symantec.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have a question regarding the supported Unicode code page. I thought > once you have unicode code page loaded, all glyph or character should be > able to map and display correctly regardless of which OS or language you > are using? > > However, i have this snowman: ☃ > > but once i input www.☃.net into the URL field, the snowman displays empty. > Does anyone know if this is result in unicode fonts that isn't used > correctly? > > This is also applicable if i enter the following Chinese character in > Japanese OS: 橠徇欯幜.NET <http://xn--svtwzo6wyxa.NET> > > Does anyone know why the empty string is showing? > thanks > > > >
