Internet Explorer Information
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Internet Explorer 7.0 and future versions support IDNA. However, to protect the user against being "spoofed" by a misleading domain name, Internet Explorer will display the Punycode format when the domain name contains characters not used by the user's list of preferred content languages. This list depends on the system environment created by the operating system setup. To see the IDN top-level domains in their native expressions, using the appropriate writing system associated with their language, a user may have to add support for additional languages in Internet Explorer. This can be achieved by going through the following steps within Internet Explorer:
- in the Tools menu, select Internet Options
- staying in the General tab, select the Languages button.
This will display a Language Preference list containing a list of supported languages; a user can add more languages by selecting the Add button. All languages from the test IDN top-level domain experiment can be supported by selecting the following languages:
- Arabic (Algeria) [ar-DZ]
- Persian [fa-IR]
- Chinese (PRC) [zh-CN]
- Chinese (Taiwan) [zh-TW]
- Russian (Russia) [ru-RU]
- Hindi (India) [hi-IN]
- Greek (Greece) [el-GR]
- Korean (Korea) [ko-KR]
- Hebrew (Israel) [he-IL]
- Japanese (Japan) [ja-JP]
- Tamil (India) [ta-IN]
Note that localized versions may have different names, but the expression between the square brackets, such as [el-GR] for Greek, is invariant. In some environments, the administrator may have blocked access to IDN in IE7, see here for further details.
