I read that ICANN is planning on changing the rules of Web addresses, by
allowing non-Latin alphabet characters. Here's the link:
http://www.switched.com/2009/10/26/web-to-go-truly-world-wide-with-non-latin-urls/
"According to the Daily Mail, the ICANN board will pass a resolution
this Friday that will allow entire Web addresses to be written in
non-Latin alphabets. Those languages could be anything from Japanese to
Arabic, or Hindi to Greek. The change means that many people around the
world could more easily navigate the Web, and even create Web sites in
their native tongue. Of the 1.6 billion people who use the Internet,
about half are native speakers of languages that do not use the Latin
alphabet. "This is the biggest change technically to the Internet since
it was invented 40 years ago," said ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush"
What are your thoughts about it?
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