Updated Opera now shows Unicode!

[boca]

I don't think this is significant in terms of IDN adoption rates. Opera users are already aware of the other browsers. Most have already tried IE and Firefox, perhaps others. The rank and file folks who need to "discover" they can type in URLs in their own script are not using Opera.

[Drewbert]

Originally Posted by Fka200

Error!
Invalid URL

The URL http://free rides contains characters that are not valid in the location they are found.
The reason for their presence may be a mistyped URL, but the URL may also be an attempt to trick you into visiting a web site which you might mistake for a site you trust.

Any chance of you talking to the opera guys and asking them to chane their code so that if there's a space involved, it is either removed, or replaced with a hyphen?

[boca]

removing the space to form the URL is the most appropriate behavior IMO, more so than giving an error message

although replacing with a hyphen would undoubtedly drive lots of sales of hyphenated domains

[Drewbert]

Either way is fine by me. It'll reduce the # of errors surfers see when using that feature.

If Safari and Opera both corrected that behaviour of their browsers, it would be good for domain owners.