http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 31st 2009 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/
would www.гугл.com lead to the same site as google.com?
And how would speakers of that language who do not have native keyboard be able to access that website?

For example someone who's Greek but lives in US and has no greek keyboard...how would he access the website?
Are they inventing the 5th wheel here? Was it not working properly before? It's not like it added an easier way to access specific websites.]]>Oct 29th 2009 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/

My guess is over time it will become easier, but I can definitely see some possible complications...]]>Oct 29th 2009 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/
Would this also mean Chinese characters would be able to be part of a domain?

I am not being racist, ethnocentric, or anything like that, but English does have the simplest, fastest alphabet. . ]]>Oct 29th 2009 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/
that is a nightmare... We need to protect the internet from this fragmentation. I am foreign-born myself, so this doesn't comes from a KKK person... this comes from a person who wants to see a united world where everyone can easily communicate with each other. ]]>Oct 29th 2009 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/For example if I wrote alarabiya (or al3rabiya for that matter :P), it'll convert it to العربية for me.. I thought it was kind of cool :P ]]>Oct 29th 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key). Then all will be well :)]]>Oct 29th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/
So, entering the strings won't be the hard part. The hard part is all the underlying stuff that now has to be able to understand 8 bit, multi-byte characters. And what if you know the reading of a website, but not how it's written? For instance, how is "Toyota" written in Japanese? How you write it could result in a different website.

Moreover is the larger problem that Latin letters ("A") are repeated in all character sets for backwards compatibility purposes, but they do not all have the same byte value. Then there's other characters that look similar, but are not the same as more familiar letters. Which is the real letter A? Α? A? Ａ? Answer? The middle one. The left one is from the Greek character set, and the right one is from the Japanese character set. However, used in a domain name, would you be able to distinguish which one is the legitimate address?]]>Oct 29th 2009 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/
Soft Keyboards. Windows PCs, Linux boxes and Macs already come with these. So does all the new smart phones (iPhone or the ones running on Android, Web OS or Win Mobile). Which makes sense considering that you would be visiting google.com more than say www.гугл.com ]]>Oct 29th 2009 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 30th 2009 5:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/the other half is perplexed at how the characters are inputted"]]>Oct 29th 2009 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/
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Basically having a website address in in non-latin characters ensures that you will have no international exposure. So I think overtime websites in those countries will gravitate to latin address anyway because it simply is the international standard, and one of the biggest advantages of the internet is being able to reach a global community. ]]>Oct 29th 2009 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/
Those that do care will use what's appropriate.]]>Oct 29th 2009 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/
I think the simpler the internet is, the better, do an ICANN car wash or something if you need to raise funds, but on my opinion this is just cultural fragmentation. I can only imagine the new phishing coming out of this...]]>Oct 29th 2009 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/
I guess things like practicality, infrastructure ect don't matter when you live in a mental utopia where you imagine the entire world consists of nothing but helpless people that need you to make the world "just" for them in the most insignificant ways.

When in reality, the vast majority of people in the world, would much rather you know... we ship them some food, help build some schools, or stop their genocide.... but hey... non-latin domain name characters... I'm sure those 100,000s starving children in Asia will pee blood a little less painfully tonight knowing their cultural interpretation of language is endorsed by ICANN.

In reality, all this is going to do, is open up a whole world full of new ways for Grandma to get her celeron equipped E-machines desktop even more infected with all sorts of new URLs to redirect to Barnyardpr0n.com]]>Oct 29th 2009 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Oct 29th 2009 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/Путин, Путин.

КАКАШКА, ХУЙ, ПИЗДА, БЗДА и т.д.

ПИДАРЫ ВЫ ВСЕ очкастые.]]>Oct 29th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/icann-set-to-allow-non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-half-th/
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