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For most security - centric websites, the right name is ASCII only.
For any that aren't, people would have the opportunity to become familiar with the correct fingerprint over time and have a chance to notice a difference.
I'm curious to hear if you think there is a better way. What I'm saying is unlikely to ever be implemented in a browser and I'm not trying to convince you or anything, just say why I personally would appreciate it.
Are you perhaps by any chance American?
I think a much better solution would be to shield end users from this problem entirely, by having all registries refuse to register such confusable names, as recommended by Unicode:
https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/tr46-34.html#Registries
Yep. Do you all have important URLs with Unicode characters?
I think it would be great if registries screened registrations for confusable names. Even if they did though, I wouldn't expect them to succeed 100%