Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)

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The Friday 2007-10-05 at 19:47 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:

They started registering IDN domains only two days ago, but that's about
all I know. The charset they allow is published:

'á', 'à', 'é', 'è', 'í', 'ì', 'ó', 'ò', 'ú', 'ü', 'ñ', 'Ç' and 'l·l'

but I don't know if there is danger in them or not, nor what is the
policy.

This looks nuts! Many of us have no convenient (or any) access to characters like this. I can do some of them in a word-proceesor, but certainly not in e-mail or Google, etc. Whose dumb idea was this, anyway?

But I can, and so can all or most of my compatriots. Remember I was talking about the .es top domain name.

See: áéíóúàèìòùâêîôûäëïöüñÁÉÍÓÚÀÈÌÒÙÄËÏÖÜÂÊÎÔÛçÇñÑ
and more: ćǵḱĺḿńṕŕśẃź


However, you /do/ have access to them in Linux. Hint: compose key.

Try hitting: [compose][c][,] --> yields "ç"

What, you do not have the compose key? But you do, although you don't see it. :-P

It is hidden as a combinations of keys. In mine, it is [shift], release, [shift][ctrl]

It is configurable in .Xmodmap.

- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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