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3 commentsWednesday, June 11, 2008

Russian President Wants Cyrillic Internet Domain

Wants to promote language

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By logic (WPN reader) - Sat, 06/14/2008 - 16:20

already possible

There is already a standard for internationalized Unicode domain names that uses some sort of encoding to allow the underlying 7-bit ASCII implementation to remain unchanged.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

While as a programmer I personally disagree with the route they chose for implementation, I expect it will be supported by all major browsers very soon, if it isn't already, permitting domain names to be registered in any script.

By matt yabsley (WPN reader) - Thu, 06/12/2008 - 13:36

fragmentation

For most everyday russian the latin text is not a problem in domain names. Internet has given the world a lot of standardisation anyway, with every language seeking its own character sets it would just seek to fragment it again.

Maybe the solution should be addressed by the russian and software to convert it into latin text rather than seek to change the basic infrastructure of the internet.

By Blue Ray Ripper (WPN reader) - Sun, 05/31/2009 - 02:53