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Which is a major security risk and you should avoid those "real browsers".
by displaying Unicode characters an attacker can send you a link that clearly shows its yahoo.com and you see in the browser url that its yahoo.com but in reality its unicode letters that look similar to latin one.
that's really bad
Not everyone uses English. Many languages can't be written with only ASCII characters.
I get why it was introduced. I am telling you why its dangrous
I'm not aware of a modern browser that doesn't render it by default. I meant a real browser as in a browser not a lemmy client
you are right.
You could disable it though in firefox: "about:config" and find "network.IDN_show_punycode" and set to true.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2017/04/17/chrome-and-firefox-adding-protection-against-this-nasty-phishing-trick/