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Modern XMPP ("Jabber") Chat Client using GTK+/Vala
https://dino.im/
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Display MUC's JID in Unicode #504

Open Sylvhem opened 5 years ago

Sylvhem commented 5 years ago

Right now, if a MUC's JID contains non-ASCII characters, it is displayed in Punycode. For example, if a chatroom address is chat@café.example, it will be displayed as chat@xn--caf-dma.example. This is both confusing and taking a lot of space for no value. I think it would be better if Dino displayed those JID in their Unicode encoding.

ariasuni commented 5 years ago

Following Firefox and Chrome would be good here: display Punycode only if it mixes script because it can dangerous, otherwise show user-friendly string.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack#Defending_against_the_attack

You can do that easily with ICU, and it is already a dependency of Dino (GTK3 depends on gdk-pixbuf2 which depends on shared-mime-info which depends on libxml2 which depends on ICU; libsoup depends on libxml2 too).