Morten Andersen-Gott said:
I tried to find somewhere to report bugs on the MS homepage, but couldn't
find it.
Help, Send Feedback (Alt-H,k)
Don't you won't us to report bugs?
Anyways, here's the thing.
After installing iNav (the plug-in made by verisign to allow domain names
with foreign characters) explorer won't capture my link-clicks from external
programs. When ever I click a link in outlook Express, MSN etc..nothing
happens, and I have to manually copy the link into the address field.
What does the documentation say? How is it supposed to work?
One guess would be that it is a BHO. If you have been battling malware
and followed the advice of some posters you may have disabled that
possibility. E.g. make sure that
Enable third-party browser extensions (requires restart)
(in Options, Advanced tab) is checked. (If you make this change
with IE active you need to make sure that iexplore.exe has stopped
running before testing if your change has had any effect.)
This might be verisign's fault, but Microsoft might won't to advise them on
how to fix the problem?
I have read that Verisign may have tried to force their own implementation
on the Internet. There are proposed standards which will be used
to provide this functionality using the client but I don't know where we are
with them yet.
<
http://a.parsons.edu/~byfield/pdf/OSI-030126.pdf >
The key phrase seems to be Internationalized Domain Name (IDN).
Another keyword is: punycode (a pun on "puny code" and Unicode?)
<
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/presentations/unicode23/a6.pdf >
I got the impression that some European registrars may be allowing
the *registration* of such names in anticipation of eventual use of them
but it isn't clear to me that they were expecting them to be used yet.
<
http://en.key-systems.net/newsarchiv2003.php#mlde >
Still a controversial subject? (This seems old but I haven't been able
to find much of anything current to refute it.)
<title> Heise Newsticker:
DNS Chaos Feared on Account of Multilingual Domains
</title>
<
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/32017 >
<quote>
Published 01.11.2002 16:00
</quote>
Here's the only thing I could find from Verisign about the plug-in
which seems to imply that they are now compliant; although there is
<quote>
still work to be done
</quote>
https://www.verisign.com/corporate/2003AnalystDay/RUSTY.ppt
(Google web search for
iNav site:verisign.com
)
Using Ted Byfield's comments which suggested that Verisign and
MINC (Multilingual Internet Names Consortium) represented opposite
ends of the spectrum in the controversy I found this:
<
http://www.minc.org/pr/mlmlJan2004.shtml >
<quote>
<p><b>London, 14 Jan 2004</b></p>
<p>Network Solutions (NSI) has recently announced that they will
no longer provide multilingual domain name registration services
or host multilingual domain names as of February 28, 2004.</p>
</quote>
(Google web search for
MINC Verisign
)
Wow! That could certainly account for your links not working.
Who do we believe? Who's right? What's happening?
Robert Aldwinckle
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