bug#47359: IceCat shows ACE/Punycode instead of IDN

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> IceCat shows ASCII-compatible encoding (ACE, roughly Punycode) for
>> so-called internationalized domain names (IDNs) instead of displaying
>> them properly—e.g., <https://xn--drivation-b4a.fr/> instead of
>> <https://dérivation.fr/>.
>
> I see the same behavior, which does not happen on 'firefox-esr' on
> Debian.

Epiphany displays the accented letter, too.

>> I believe it purposefully has a white list of the kind of IDNs it
>> accepts to display properly (to avoid phishing).  In ‘about:config’
>> there’s a set of ‘network.IDN.whitelist’ Booleans, which suggest the
>> example above should work, but for some reason it doesn’t.
>>
>> Ideas?
>
> My first guess is that it has something to do with the fact that support
> for language packs is currently broken.  Perhaps some data from the
> language pack is needed to make decisions about which IDNs to display.
>
> The problem with language packs is that they must now be digitally
> signed by Mozilla, and obviously we cannot do that.  I guess we need to
> find the code that performs those signature checks, and disable it for
> language packs found in trusted system directories.

Oh, I see.  Would be nice if we could achieve that.

Thanks for checking!

Ludo’.