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Internet Corporation expected to vote 'yes' to non-Latin script

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:39p.m.
One of the biggest changes in the history of the internet is set to take place later today.

The Internet Corporation for assigned names and numbers is voting in Seoul, and is expected to approve the use of international domain names that can be written in non-Latin script.

It would allow internet addresses to be written in characters as diverse as Arabic, Korean, Greek and Hindi.

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Joe Smith
02 Nov 2009 4:54p.m.

It's a little more complex that just using the browser to do a simple translation. Most browsers already translate IDNs to and from Unicode. However, they had to consider all manner of technical and security issues, one of which is spoofing using domain homologues, i.e. domain names that look identical but are in fact different. E.g paypay.com written in Russian where the 'o' looks the same in ASCII and Cyrillic script.

Richard Principal
31 Oct 2009 3:33a.m.

HUH!!! It will be up and running in the middle of 2010 really! why so long...... Surly it could be done at the browser level (which they have in every language) e.g. You type in at the end of the URL .&^.(%~+ which is Martian for .co.mars and the browser converts .&^.(%~+ into .co.mars um why has it taken so long?

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