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We have listed those we know about here:</P> <UL> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/" target="_blank">Internet Explorer 7.0 or newer</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/" target="_blank">Firefox 0.8 or newer</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.opera.com/" target="_blank">Opera 7.22 or newer</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/" target="_blank">Safari 1.2 or newer for MacOS</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.caminobrowser.org/" target="_blank">Camino 0.8 or newer for MacOS</a></li> </UL> <P> Some of the programs listed above also have an email client embedded. If they do not appear on <a href="faq?id=100">the list of supported email clients</a>, they probably do not support IDN. Here, you will also find a list of known errors. </P> <P>You have to use the encoded variant of the domain name in programs not supporting IDN. For example, <code>忙酶氓.no</code> is encoded as <code>xn--5cab8c.no</code>. 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