A year of non-Latin script domain names
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A year of non-Latin script domain names
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#2It's been a year already, and still I don't think I've ever visited a non-Latin-script URL. You would think the web would be the end of parochialism.
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#3It's been a year already, and still I don't think I've ever visited a non-Latin-script URL. You would think the web would be the end of parochialism.
What would happen to top level domain names like .com, .net etc ? Even they use non-latin characters before .com, .net etc "com", "net" is still Latin.
Re: A year of non-Latin script domain names
#4It's been a year already, and still I don't think I've ever visited a non-Latin-script URL. You would think the web would be the end of parochialism.
What would happen to top level domain names like .com, .net etc ? Even they use non-latin characters before .com, .net etc "com", "net" is still Latin.
I don't think they would let . be part of beginning or ending of the domain name.
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
What would happen to top level domain names like .com, .net etc ? Even they use non-latin characters before .com, .net etc "com", "net" is still Latin.
I don't think they would let . be part of beginning or ending of the domain name.
. is by itself a Latin character.
Re: A year of non-Latin script domain names
#6It's been a year already, and still I don't think I've ever visited a non-Latin-script URL. You would think the web would be the end of parochialism.
What would happen to top level domain names like .com, .net etc ? Even they use non-latin characters before .com, .net etc "com", "net" is still Latin.
Not exactly. There are already IDN TLDs in existence.
More specifically, the "." is still a separator. Any component of the domain name can independently have xn-- and it will be interpreted as Punycode. Today you could register ujjvala.السعودية and it would be completely valid.
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#7Am I the only one that feels this move to non-Latin domain names is a bad idea? People spend tons of effort to create a uniform interface for seemingly disparate systems. We started out fine, but now we're moving towards separating our system.
We've had a uniform language that the world can adopt for communication across the web, but now we're going to create seemingly impossible to reach sites because we don't have a special character keyboard. Why anyone would think this is a great idea to "accommodating" other languages in this manner is beyond me. Can someone shed some light? Am I missing something?
Re: A year of non-Latin script domain names
#8Am I the only one that feels this move to non-Latin domain names is a bad idea? People spend tons of effort to create a uniform interface for seemingly disparate systems. We started out fine, but now we're moving towards separating our system. We've had a uniform language that the world can adopt for communication across the web, but now we're going to create seemingly impossible to reach sites because we don't have…
If you cannot type the Arabic URL, there are chances you don't need to. Maybe you'd want to follow a link and read the page using a translator, but not type the URL.
The non latin URL is totally coherent with the freedom to have a non latin content and, ultimately, some web users knowing only languages without latin letters.
Re: A year of non-Latin script domain names
#9Am I the only one that feels this move to non-Latin domain names is a bad idea? People spend tons of effort to create a uniform interface for seemingly disparate systems. We started out fine, but now we're moving towards separating our system. We've had a uniform language that the world can adopt for communication across the web, but now we're going to create seemingly impossible to reach sites because we don't have…
> People spend tons of effort to create a uniform interface
> for seemingly disparate systems.
The world is bigger than US and ASCII is not enough for all.
> Why anyone would think this is a great idea to > "accommodating" other languages in this manner is beyond me.
Why? To have domain name in other languages. Or do you assume the web is English-only?
If my favorite basketball club is "Žalgiris" why should it be zalgiris.lt instead of žalgiris.lt? And you don't know how to type in some specific URL chances are that you won't be interested in site's content anyway.
Re: A year of non-Latin script domain names
#10Am I the only one that feels this move to non-Latin domain names is a bad idea? People spend tons of effort to create a uniform interface for seemingly disparate systems. We started out fine, but now we're moving towards separating our system. We've had a uniform language that the world can adopt for communication across the web, but now we're going to create seemingly impossible to reach sites because we don't have…
« Why anyone would think this is a great idea to "accommodating" other languages in this manner is beyond me. »
Why anyone would think that forcing a large part of the world to use a foreign alphabet is a good idea is beyond me.
Do you realize that the latin alphabet is actually _hard_ to read/write for a lot of people out there ? Do you realize that it is as annoying for them to write in latin that it is for you to write in, say, cyrillic ?