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Yes but I guess that the message was meaning that browsers now detect homographs and display the punycode instead. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14130241; at that time Firefox wasn't fixed, but in the meantime it fixed the issue too (there's a network.idn.punycode_cyrillic_confusables preference, which is enabled by default).


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