Couldn't help but cringe at the last line of this press release. Can anyone give me a quick update on the status of IDN standards work? It's been a while since I checked it out...
WEB Addresses Take On New Look As Multilingual & Symbol-Based Capability Launched http://www.globalization.com/newsIndex.cfm?newsID=news57700062020024 Neteka Inc. today announced it's International Domain Name Server (DNS) has gone live on the dot.BZ Registry, extending the Internet's accepted character set for Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addresses from English letters and numbers, to the thousands of symbols and letters of the world's many alphabets. Web addresses supporting the world's languages give the non-English Internet community a chance to break free from the confines of the English alphabet. In addition, the expanded character set gives rise to untapped creative opportunities to combine symbols and letters for unique Web addresses.
