<div dir="ltr">I'm not sure if one web site is as much an indication of a country's policy as it is a lack of QA and planning :)<br><br><div>That said, look at what comes over the wire when you hit the original URL in Chrome<br>
<br>Location: /tsa-pre%E2%9C%93%E2%84%A2<br><br>And the resulting request:<br><br><a href="http://www.tsa.gov/tsa-pre%E2%9C%93%E2%84%A2">http://www.tsa.gov/tsa-pre%E2%9C%93%E2%84%A2</a><br><br>It looks like Chrome is the one turning things back to a unicode character. TSA is following the rules -- if it's not displayable in the us ascii character set, url encode it. But anything goes in a URL.<div>
<br></div><div>Sean</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Adam Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net" target="_blank">athompso@athompso.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Apparently even the American federal government doesn't think it needs to<br>
be limited to the ASCII character set any more...<br>
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Go to <a href="http://www.tsa.gov/expedited-screening" target="_blank">http://www.tsa.gov/expedited-screening</a> and take a close look at the<br>
URL it redirects you to. See attached screenshots of Chrome, Mozilla and<br>
IE under Win7 for a great illustration of why you shouldn't do this.<br>
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ARGH.<br>
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Oh, and the icing on the cake is that their website won't *quite* fit into<br>
a 1024-pixel-wide browser window. Travelers with 14" laptop screens are<br>
apparently no longer expected to visit the USA!<br>
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-Adam Thompson<br>
<a href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net">athompso@athompso.net</a><br>
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