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IE 7 + Internationalized domain names
This opens up a whole new realm of domain names. I never thought using different characters in domain names would come so soon. A few weeks ago I was wondering how people who don’t speak english surf the web. What made me think about it was a site written and designed 100% for Arabic. I definitely didn’t know what it was saying but the domain name was in English. So, I took a deep moment to ponder “How do they know what address to type?” I assumed their keyboard or software did some translation or something.
Either way, the time has come in IE 7 to allow for international domain names.
“Domain names are not limited to ASCII any longer, and as the web is growing more and more domain names now contain characters from other character sets. Such domain names are called Internationalized domain names (IDN), for example http://ايكيا.com is a domain in Arabic for IKEA. IE7 added support for IDN in Beta 2. We listened to your feedback during Beta 2 and we are changing the principles of IDN to accommodate the way customers want to use international characters on the web.”
Read more here.
Posted by John C. Bland II on July 31, 2006 12:21 PM | Permalink
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