Merlin, You are wrong. You CAN simply type chinese characters in the address bar. I saw this thread yesterday. I checked out worldnames and registered one of their .nu sites in Japanese (free for 3 months). The way their system works is that it places the dns on their server and also places a framed html page. The top frame is on their server with the japanese language url and the depth is set to 0. The other frame is set to a url you define when you register. A basic URL forward. I registered it and 10 minutes later I could type it in the browser window and it linked strait to my OpenSRS enabled registration site. The reason YOU cannot type in chinese characters in the url address bar is probably because YOU are using an english language version of IE5. I have both native Japanese and Korean systems (our company is in Tokyo, Japan) and I (and any other person using japanese, korean, or chinese IE5) can just type in a Far East language url in the address bar. It does work!!!! The dictionary is only for helping people select a name who cannot read the native languages. Like you. John Spohr President I.S. International, Inc. Tokyo, Japan www.isinternational.com P.S. If you type the url into a Japanese language word processor and then paste it into the browser window of IE5 english version, it loses the native character set and gives you what looks like a lot of weird characters, but when you hit return it does go to the correct site. Again it does work. You just have to be able to type in one of those languages to begin with. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Merlin Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 7:54 AM To: opensrs-discuss Subject: Re: Another on Multilingual Registrations Worldnames for eg is simply using online dictionaries - which seem to be from places like SunRain.net- in the front end. Pretty neat, but hardly reveloutionary. OpenSRS doesn't provide a translation because the RACE thing (MLDNS) is based on the person entering their domain name in the native language. That is, type in the Chinese characters, having selected say Simplified Chinese as the encoding, and away it goes and registers it. It's only where your language isn't the one you are trying to register a domain in that you are going to need an online dictionary. The major problem with any of these things though is the browsers. You simply can't type Chinese characters into the [address] bar in IE for example. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Carey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Merlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 5:47 AM Subject: RE: Another on Multilingual Registrations > Hi, > > think it's a little more tnan that - it will actually translate the word > into the language and then display the word in the appropriate form (eg > Kanji) ready to register - quite nice - don't think opensrs code provides > the translation > > cheers > > Jim Carey > www.OZbcoz.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Merlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2000 12:23 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Another on Multilingual Registrations > > > > > > Hi Jim, > > It's just the OpenSRS interface prettied up. looks nice though. > > > > bob > > --- > > Robert Chalmers > > http://www.quantum-radio.net.au Quantum Radio > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.inexpensivewebsites.com Domain Name Registrations > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jim Carey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 7:11 PM > > Subject: Another on Multilingual Registrations > > > > > > > There is a company > > > http://www.registrars.com/mlprereg/mtld-intro.shtml#translate > > that is doing > > > multilingual registrations that has a really neat translation > > facility built > > > into the site. Does anyone here know of a public domain system > > that can do > > > what they are doing ? > > > > > > cheers > > > > > > Jim Carey > > > www.OZbcoz.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
