RE: Apostrophes in URL

From: Shelly Hermia Bhujun <shelly_hermia_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 21:03:36 +0400

Hello Ish and SM,

Thank you Ish. I tried it :)

So we can use Apostrophe if it's after a domain name (like in the link sent by Ish) but not in the domain?
Why? SM could you please explain what sort of problem could arise?

Kind regards,
Shelly


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> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:28:44 -0700
> To: shelly_hermia_at_hotmail.com; mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com
> From: sm+mu_at_elandsys.com
> Subject: Re: Apostrophes in URL
>
> Hi Shelly,
> At 10:18 16-09-2015, Shelly Hermia Bhujun wrote:
> >I was looking for l'express.mu but it did not work. Then I wondered
> >why URL cannot have apostrophes? So I Googled but ended up on links
> >such as this one:
> >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407172
>
> If I am not mistaken, the .mu registry does not support
> internationalized domain names. Hence, a domain name which contains
> characters such as the apostrophe cannot be registered. Although it
> is technically possible to allow the apostrophe, that could cause
> some problems [1].
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
> 1. I tried to provide an easy answer.
>
>
                                               
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