I usually post this kind of information in the inloop section but this is a big one. IE7 Beta 2 came with Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) support. IE7 Beta 3 just gets it better.
Remember when we talked about i18n and true localization and discussed the findability problem caused by non-localized domain names ? Recall that? Well, it’s on the way. IE7 now even supports mixing scripts, allowing to have ASCII and other characters in the domain name. Does that include the whole URL? I’ll leave that question at IE Blog.
Update: IEBlog answered: @dotone: The IDN standard only applies to domain names. For the rest of the URL, IE by default uses UTF-8 for the path, and either UTF-8 or codepaged text for the query string.
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