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Support for Multi-Byte Character URLs

SiteMinder supports URLs that contain multi-byte characters (MBCS). MBCS URL support includes support for:

• Internationalized domain names ‑ An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that can contain non-ASCII characters, including letters with diacritics and characters from non‑Latin scripts, such as Arabic and Chinese.
• Internationalized resource identifiers ‑ An internationalized resource identifier (IRI) is the international equivalent of a uniform resource identifier (URI). An IRI can contain ASCII characters and characters from a MBCS set; a URI is limited to a subset of ASCII characters.

MBCS URL support lets:

• SiteMinder protect resources that are accessed through MBCS URLs.
• You configure specific authentication schemes using an IDN and an IRI.