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Sometimes when you directly search some Chinese in certain Chrome browsers you will get something like the following prompt:
Here searching 百度 asks:
Did you mean to go to http://xn--wxtr44c/
What correlation is there between 百度 and "xn--wxtr44c"?
Here's a second example:
新浪 prompts:
xn--efvx5o
What are these codes prompted from Chinese characters?
It's Punycode, used in URLs to encode Unicode as ASCII.
The chinese chracters "百度" in web world is the alias of the URL http://xn--wxtr44c/. For a correct setting of browser, the true URL shouldn't appear.
