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Cheiron
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 Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:04 am Post subject: Domain name rulechange by ICANN |
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After a week long meeting in Seoul, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has announced that other writing systems than the roman (or latin alphabet) can be used for domain names on the internet.
The internet is used by about 1.5 billion people worldwide, and half of them use other writing systems than the roman. ... So now you can get domain names written in e.g. chinese, hindi, korean, indonesian, hebrew and arabic
Personal comment:
this might take surfing the net to a very different and totally random level for me... lol
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Scotsman
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Unfortunately this looks to be another example of a bunch of bureaucrats deciding something with no clue as to technical realities.
The DNS system has been based on ASCII since it's inception, that means most if not all the software, libraries, etc that work with domain names are ASCII. Just declaring that we will now throw multi-byte character's at it strikes me as a recipe for disaster. |
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Cheiron
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| Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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indeed... I instantly thought: omg... here we go again, seeing trouble ahead.
btw isn't the standard ... or "recommended" now UTF-8 or something (but compatible with ASCII) ? it's some unicode edition I think... well heck what do I know?....
PS: for the very puzzled reader that thinks... "what on earth are they rambling about?"... I dunno exactly, at least I am not the wise guy that suggested putting i.e. hindi letters in domain names... but... with my feeble mind I will try to explain: puters only understand numbers (yes they are dumb)... so when programming you use a format of some sort to translate various special things you want like a letter or a space or whatever sign to numbers... and those things comes in different flavors like ASCII or UTF-8 etc, I think it is called an encoding system... and uhhh..... (HEEELP SCOTSMAN !!!! ) ... LOL
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