Firefox cannot load new German IDN character ß
In 2004 Firefox made it possible thatmost of German IDN characters in domains could be used. So when typing in "Fußball.de", the browser converted it automatically into "Fussball.de". Since some weeks the registry denic for .de domains allowed to use also the IDN character "ß". But Firefox is still converting an ß into ss, so the domains cannot be used. When is this going to be changed? Are there any plans yet?
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Websites still need to register and enable that 'ß' domain, otherwise you still get redirected to the classic 'ss' version.
Characters permitted in .de domains soon to include "ß": www.denic.de: http://www.denic.de/en/denic-in-dialogue/press-releases/press/2981.html
Thanks cor-el.
Actually denic made it already possible to register "ß" domains some weeks ago. But since browser versions are not up to date, ß is still converting into ss.
Therefore poeple holding a domain with an ß cannot use their domains, since the traffic is leading to the ss version.
Are there any plans from mozilla to update this within the next firefox version?
It is not Firefox that does the redirection, but the server.
Status: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://www.fussball.de/
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>301 Moved Permanently</title> </head><body> <h1>Moved Permanently</h1> <p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.fussball.de/">here</a>.</p> </body></html>
Modified by cor-el
In this case it is, but Firefox replaces them by itself. Create a page with the attached code and hover over the link, in the source it is ß but in the statusbar it gets ss. So the page can't redirect anything because it is not even reached. Fußball.de just made a check for the case that the browsers start implementing IDNA2008
