URL-SYNTAX: update IDNA section for WHATWG spec changes #7026
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WHATWG URL has dictated the use of Nontransitional Processing (IDNA 2008) for several years now. Chrome (and derivatives) still use Transitional Processing, but Firefox and Safari have both switched. Also document the fact that winidn functions differently from libidn2 here.
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| When built with libidn2, curl uses the IDNA 2008 standard. This is equivalent | ||
| to the WHATWG URL spec, but differs from certain browsers that use IDNA 2003 | ||
| Transitional Processing. The two standards have a huge overlap but differ | ||
| slightly, perhaps most famously in how they deal with the German "double s" |
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At least in German the character is called sz and only replaced with two s when you don't have the character available or when you need to capitalize it because officially there is no capital variant of it.
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WHATWG URL has dictated the use of Nontransitional Processing (IDNA 2008) for several years now (since whatwg/url#240). Chrome (and derivatives) still use Transitional Processing, but Firefox and Safari have both switched.
Also document the fact that winidn functions differently from libidn2 here.