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- Phrea, on 10/26/2009, -4/+112Title should read non-latin based letters and characters.
- PowderedToasty, on 10/26/2009, -3/+81Dey took aare URLS!!!
- atroxodisse, on 10/26/2009, -0/+75Welcome to javascript form validation hell.
- veriix, on 10/26/2009, -1/+74ಠ_ಠ.com
- IphtashuFitz, on 10/26/2009, -1/+59Great, I can see this as a scammers wet dream. Register BANKϘFAMERICA.COM and set up your phishing site! I could also see this opening up a huge threat for people who are dyslexic (or just don't look too carefully at the links they click on) by scammers who incorporate inverted letters like И, Ǝ, etc. into domain names.
- Awwzm, on 10/26/2009, -4/+53Don't tell me I have to learn Kanji to access "special" Japanese sites
...yes porn. - darkzealot89, on 10/26/2009, -1/+41DEY TUK AUUR URLS!!!!!
- HigherLogic, on 10/26/2009, -2/+38谷歌.com
- Awwzm, on 10/26/2009, -1/+34TUUK TIK TUUUR!!!!
- skelooth, on 10/26/2009, -0/+28On your marks, get set...... DOMAIN SQUAT!
- jpartridge, on 10/26/2009, -1/+25Non-Latin chars...RTFA!
- threat42, on 10/26/2009, -2/+25Yes, it's ignorant to act as though the English invented our current alphabet.
- IphtashuFitz, on 10/26/2009, -0/+23A much lager percentage of people on the planet live below the poverty level. I don't think they care too much about the internet, if they even know it exists. They're too busy just trying to survive.
"Almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day."
http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-fac ... - immatellyouwhat, on 10/26/2009, -0/+21EER DERRR DE DERRR!!!!
- densetsu23, on 10/26/2009, -2/+21In other news, millions of web sites will have to rewrite their form validation scripts because their regular expressions won't work on these new domains.
- SpookyET, on 10/26/2009, -0/+19Firefox has a bug. Look at the addressbar. It changes http://例子.测试/ into http://www.例子.测试/ and it fails. Remove "www.". It will load in Firefox.
- HigherLogic, on 10/26/2009, -4/+21No it shouldn't, when they allow this it's going to be a *****. Think about validation, programming, etc. You can't write HTML, CSS, PHP, etc. in non-latin based characters, so domains should be the same way: a-z, 0-9, periods and dashes.
- CocodaMonkey, on 10/26/2009, -0/+16That was one of the main issues being discussed when this was first being considered years ago. No idea if they've really addressed it though. If they are smart they'll force you to use only one character set when making a name. No mixing and matching. It'll be interesting to see what the exact rules are going to be.
- RyeBrye, on 10/26/2009, -1/+16can I get ☃.com?
- Eurynom0s, on 10/26/2009, -0/+15DIRKA DIR
- Solkre, on 10/26/2009, -3/+18Now we can billions more squatter sites!
- txballer, on 10/26/2009, -7/+20Whats the point of if programming languages like html, css, php is still English based?
- dsmx, on 10/26/2009, -0/+13DEY TOK R WRDS.
- ayeroxor, on 10/26/2009, -0/+13URKA BURRR!
- ell0bo, on 10/26/2009, -0/+12oh *****... why did you have to make me think of that. just please no one tell my boss...
- WaxTrax, on 10/26/2009, -1/+12Firefox can't find the server at www.%d9%85%d8%ab%d8%a7%d9%84.%d8%a5%d8%ae%d8%aa%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1
- nyxerebos, on 10/26/2009, -0/+11don't forget phising sites with like yourbaᴎkĩng.com
- CocodaMonkey, on 10/26/2009, -7/+17Normal users don't program. This is so a normal user (say chinese) can jump on their computer and type in a chinese domain name and get to a chinese site. Not everyone knows english or is even used to latin characters. It's a big deal for some people. Think of it this way, do you have trouble telling diffrent chinese symbols apart? Imagine if you had to type all the domains using only chinese symbols. If you can't identify and type someone elses language why would you expect everyone to recognize latin characters?
There are more chinese speakers on this planet then english speakers. The only thing that is suprising about this is that it's taken this long. - SpookyET, on 10/26/2009, -4/+14They've been contemplating this for a while. Perhaps, http should be translated it as well. :p
Here are some test domains.
http://مثال.إختبار/
http://مثال.آزمایشی/
http://例子.测试/
http://例子.測試/
http://例え.テスト/ - 1Bad, on 10/26/2009, -2/+12Well, Japanese is the only language that uses Japanese characters. How many languages use Latin characters?
- Barackalypse, on 10/26/2009, -0/+9A modern day tower of babel, now even less comprehensive than before.
- mparker21311, on 10/26/2009, -4/+13There will be a link language translator addon for firefox.
Problem solved. - odiroot, on 10/26/2009, -1/+10☃.net
From today's xkcd comments. - bubbrubb22, on 10/26/2009, -2/+10Uhh no. Translations don't always come out right. (Try translation party)
- jpartridge, on 10/26/2009, -6/+14Ummm...End users can type into the address bar of the browser without having to markup or code anything. It's an accessibility issue more than a streamlining web development issue.
- slugpellet63, on 10/26/2009, -0/+7Given that around 1.6 - 2.0 billion people live without access to electricity, add to that the rural poor with no access to telecommunications, the underclass in the industrialized countries who can't afford it, the bulk of the elderly and those that couldn't give a ***** about the interweb - should you be surprised.
- appleseed1234, on 10/26/2009, -2/+9Sweet, I had no idea domains like pinatas.com were forbidden.
/s it's LATIN, not english - damack, on 10/27/2009, -0/+7It's going to be interesting when the US Treasury website is only available in Chinese in a few years.
- slugpellet63, on 10/26/2009, -1/+6This is going to take some figuring out for those of us that are a bit Neanderthal when it comes to the techi stuff.
***** me. My heads hurting just thinking about it. - ayeroxor, on 10/26/2009, -0/+5The only way everyone can access everything (I thought that was the idea) is if all addresses were in a codepage that was on every machine.
Now there will be pages that even the technically proficient will find difficult to access. You call that "how it should be" ? - azpat, on 10/26/2009, -0/+5Let the spoofing begin!
- HigherLogic, on 10/26/2009, -1/+6Works in Opera (but, of course)
- jamesdew, on 10/26/2009, -1/+5DE DK R DRLS
- phrakshun, on 10/26/2009, -1/+5Translation:
lolcats.com - atroxodisse, on 10/26/2009, -0/+4http://javascript.about.com/library/blunicode.htm
PHP supports unicode, as does Javascript. It will work, but it will require a lot of recoding. Be especially worried about the poor database folks who may have to change their data types to support larger data types due to changing from ASCII to UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32. - ayeroxor, on 10/26/2009, -0/+4Yes, you stupid *****. Let's go back to distributing hosts files to every user on earth. That's the origin of hosts files. It predates DNS. But of course, you're so sharp, you knew that, right?
- Ymeg, on 10/26/2009, -1/+4I'm pretty sure the internet already spans the globe.
- Lingur, on 10/26/2009, -0/+3Seconded! This has been possible for some time with Icelandic domains.
www.alþingi.is as well.
Edit: Well, Digg screws up the link. It works if you copy/paste this into the address bar (or type it in) - houkouonchi, on 10/28/2009, -0/+3I don't get this. How is this any different from IDN domains which already exist?
- piieerrrree, on 10/26/2009, -1/+4this will lead to revolutionary rick-roll techniques and surprise-it's-porn sites.
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