Dockery

You could just transliterate it. I didn't read the URL so I don't know if he did or not.

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yawnbox

Its becoming a bigger issue in the eye of the media. This has been developmental concern of ICAAN's for the last 7 years.

What people are you referring to? It really doesn't affect phishing. Domains that are registered resembling trademarks are watched more closely now than in the past by registrars. It's much easier for a phisher to simply create a subdomain... paypal .phishingdomain .com, for example.

and that's great... you're in the minority now. china has more internet users than the US has citizens. there are more websites now than you can visit in your lifetime.

they have no choice but to. ICAAN makes the rules so that it's easier for DNS registries to properly implement new rules.

well on the browser level this already works correctly.

your first example translates to: www.xn--qcka1pmc.com

while your second translates to: www.xn--kckka3fxcwjydb.xn--hb0a/

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DuDeInThEmOoN42

Our animation teacher mentioned something about this today..I can understand that it makes it easier to use characters that aren't written in 'English' for non speakers, but you would think that they could approach domain names with some other method(and maybe it wouldn't involve English or any spoken language for that matter)

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awdrifter

I think this is good for non-Latin language speakers. I can easily type Chinese or Japanese on my computer, so entering the site shouldn't be a problem for the language's native speakers. Cant' wait when this becomes a working url.

www.超频.net

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More than half of internet users don't use latin alphabet so this is great news for these people. They don't have to deal with a foreign language to browse their websites.

My language is also based on latin alphabet except few letters like "ş,ğ,ü,ö,ç,ı" so i'd like to use them too in domain names. It pisses me off to see users who have latin alphabet in their languages are so lazy that instead learning other languages they force others to use latin alphabet so that they can track down websites of others.

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tNok85

I think it's much more of an issue of standardization rather than one people trying to impose their language (or alphabet in this case...) on the world.


It's kind of like why you don't write a book by translating it as you write it, sentence by sentence. Get it working first in the language the author knows - in this case the English speaking world was the forerunner in this technology (most often, and most definitely in forming the Internet).

Why it took this long, I'm not 100% sure.

timw4mail

It isn't like it was an intentional act of discrimination against other alphabets. Mainstream computing developed mostly in English-speaking countries. It's a lot simpler to design a computer and system for 26 letters, compared to however many characters there may be in other languages.

As it is, the quickest way to enter many Asian languages is to phonetically spell out a word, and then select the appropriate character. While the Japanese could probably design a keyboard that uses kana to spell out kanji, it's very impractical to have a single key for each character in a pictographic language.

This, more than any intentional discrimination, is why things like this have taken so long.

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You would use strokes, if combined with other strokes it makes a character. Like this keyboard people in HongKong use.

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timw4mail

That would be a Japanese keyboard, as Hong Kong does not use Kana.

For Japanese, one can spell out words in kana (selecting the appropriate kana by it's phonetic spelling), and then select the appropriate kanji.

That said, I'm not quite sure how Chinese actually is entered.

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Astroz

So latin users are lazy for not learning other languages, and the non-latin users are not?

Of course you want to use your own language, why do you think they implemented this in the first place?