IDN Variant Labels

IDN variant labels are domain labels that certain script communities have been identified as technically distinct, but visually indistinguishable.

Types of IDN Variant Labels

There are two types of variant labels: within-script and cross-script.

Within-script

There are various reasons that particular script communities consider certain strings as variant labels.

• In Chinese, the traditional and simplified characters share meaning, but contain slight variations in the characters.
  • Example, the word for China: 中國 (traditional) and 中国 (simplified)