At 9:42 AM -0400 10/27/09, Stephen Brownfield wrote:
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?
The web site itself is probably also in a non-Roman alphabet. I only
am able to read English, so it will have no effect on me at all.
--
Roger
Lovettsville, VA
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