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Get the BBS Scene Vibes back with Neon Modem Overdrive(xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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jmd_akbar@aussie.zone
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That “xn–” link seems mighty suspicious…

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schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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That’s just some Unicode stuff; the domain name is non Latin characters so that’s how you represent it where unicode isn’t properly supported. Doesn’t mean mean anything malicious.

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Chozo@fedia.io
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Is it common for Japanese URLs to use non-Latin text like that? I rarely end up on Japanese websites, but I feel like I’ve always seen romaji domains when I’ve ended up there.

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mesamune@lemmy.worldOP
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I think its just the ASCII chars for his website domain.
Example: https://マリウス.com/get-the-bbs-scene-vibes-back-with-neonmodem-overdrive/images/neonmodem.gif

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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It’s called punycode. It’s just a way of encoding non ASCII characters in a URL.

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vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
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He explains it in the faq

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