 RobIn Deo speramus, God Bless the USAPremium
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Kendall, FL
kudos:2 | reply to james
Re: ICANN allows non-Latin character domain names said by james:Why? Why enable Non-Latin character domain names? Sure, chinese characters are fine, but characters with accents? What the hell is wrong with those idiots? Now dslreports, for example, will have to register dslréports, and every other combination with every accent associated with every vowel in their name. That is BULLSHIT and totally irresponsible. Not to mention that many of us programmers will need to change our programs to accept the new domain name formats.
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 RARPSL
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Suffern, NY | said by Rob:Not to mention that many of us programmers will need to change our programs to accept the new domain name formats. There is only 1 new format and it is already supported by most recent browsers. It is still only ASCII but is encoded to handle the x128+ codes and Unicode. The system is named Punycode and the details are at »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode. All URLS of this form start with xn-- as the first 4 characters of their URL (ie: h t t p : / / xn--) so they are not hard to spot. |
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 r81984Fair and BalancedPremium
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Katy, TX | I just did search for XN urls and they are all jibberish.
»xn--7dbakjaabwl7h.com
Who would want this?
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RARPSL
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Suffern, NY | Did you read the Wikipedia article I pointed at? The xn-- URLs are encoded. If you want to search for a domain name you must start with the Unicode version and convert to xn-- form (or take the xn-- form and decode it to Unicode). If you say the location bar is showing xn-- jibberish, you have to flip a Browser setting to tell it to display as Unicode not Punycode. |
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