ICANN Launches International Domain Names
Posted By Jon On May 6, 2010 @ 9:30 am In Industry News | No Comments
ICANN today finally released the Internationalized Domain Namespace which allows for the non-latin characters in languages like Farsi, Arabic and Chinese. How does it look?
But what’s going on behind the scenes? What if I don’t have these character sets on my machine or if I’m in the command line? Here’s what the URL above looks like in puny code [1]. Punycode is an instance of a general encoding syntax (Bootstring) by which a string of Unicode characters can be transformed uniquely and reversibly into a smaller, restricted character set.
Story via GxD [2]
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[1] puny code: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
[2] GxD: http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2010/05/06/the-dawn-of-a-new-url/
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