IDN support in Android

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Does Android browser support IDN websites?

Also is this support available for 3rd party applications? In other words can I connect to a webservice hosted on an IDN website from an Android App?

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Yes, you can browse IDN domains in Android's browser, but the domain name will be simply converted to the Punycode notation, so you will see www.xn--br-via.com instead of www.bär.com in the adress bar.

If you want to access such domains, you have to convert the domain to Punycode.

You can do this programmatically with java.net.IDN, or you could use an online converter and work with the Punycode notation.