ICANN Approves Internationalized Chinese Domain Names 116
philalethiac writes "Millions of Chinese language users will soon be able to access the Internet using Chinese script following a decision today by ICANN's Board of Directors to approve a set of Chinese language internationalized domain names."
Re:ICANN speak Chinese but Slashdot can't (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Do they resolve to cn or are they seperate? (Score:1, Informative)
More registrations = more money!
Re:left-to-right-top-to-bottom-you-silly-foreigner (Score:3, Informative)
You might have missed it for the last little while, but English is pretty much the defacto trade language anywhere you go. But no, people don't get worked up over the intrusion of foreign languages into English. English in itself is highly mailable, which is why it's considered a trade language. French on the other hand, gets bent out of shape because they see it as pollution of the language. They're all about purity.
Re:ICANN speak Chinese but Slashdot can't (Score:4, Informative)
I guess, until Slashdot enables the UTF character set like everyone else has for the past decade or so,
1. There will be some domain names that we can't link to on Slashdot
Slashdot did allow Unicode. Then things like like this [slashdot.org] happened. Blame the comment trolls for forcing Slashdot to use a whitelist of characters allowed.
As for domain names, from what I see, they start with a standard prefix (I think it's "xn--") followed by the Unicode codepoints. Just so they're compatible across all systems. Browsers can choose to display the codepoints, or, I'm seeing an option to not do that, so you can tell Paypal.com from xn--blahblabblah.xn--blah.
Re:compromise idea to prevent regional isolation (Score:4, Informative)
Zhuyin fuhao (Score:3, Informative)