"Wikipedia" in Hebrew: xn--7dbcbqab9ewa.org "Wikipedia" in Arabic: (I'm guessing) is xn--mgbbv2fyambbb.org (I took this from the Main Page in Arabic; it's the text in quotes)
Are there plans to register these domains? What about Japanese, etc, etc?
Is Punycode even commonly used in the countries of those languages? I know that in Israel it is common to see latinised domains (http://www.shesh.co.il http://www.walla.co.il http://www.nana.co.il etc) instead of domains in Unicode.
Internet Explorer does not appear to support Punycode.
Tomer Chachamu wrote:
"Wikipedia" in Hebrew: xn--7dbcbqab9ewa.org "Wikipedia" in Arabic: (I'm guessing) is xn--mgbbv2fyambbb.org (I took this from the Main Page in Arabic; it's the text in quotes)
Are there plans to register these domains? What about Japanese, etc, etc?
Is Punycode even commonly used in the countries of those languages? I know that in Israel it is common to see latinised domains (http://www.shesh.co.il http://www.walla.co.il http://www.nana.co.il etc) instead of domains in Unicode.
Internet Explorer does not appear to support Punycode.
The magic term is "IDN": Punycode is only part of the implementation of internationalized domain names. Firefox currently does support IDN. This is subject to change in the near term as security policies are worked on. However, by later this year, I expect that IDN support will be solid on at least Firefox, and perhaps IE, as Microsoft is forced to play catch-up.
I would certainly recommend registering the names as soon as possible, before someone else does.
-- Neil
Tomer Chachamu wrote:
"Wikipedia" in Hebrew: xn--7dbcbqab9ewa.org "Wikipedia" in Arabic: (I'm guessing) is xn--mgbbv2fyambbb.org (I took this from the Main Page in Arabic; it's the text in quotes)
Are there plans to register these domains? What about Japanese, etc, etc?
Is Punycode even commonly used in the countries of those languages? I know that in Israel it is common to see latinised domains (http://www.shesh.co.il http://www.walla.co.il http://www.nana.co.il etc) instead of domains in Unicode.
Internet Explorer does not appear to support Punycode.
It doesn't. Unfortunately, punycode (for IDN support) presents a huge security vulnerability for browsers at this time, so even on non-IE browsers a lot of people are turning off IDN support. The problem is that punycode allows easy spoofing of many domain names by using character homographs in the URL. I, for instance, have IDN support turned off in Firefox.
-- Chad
Opera also support IDN. Anyway if something is interested in Unicode DNS he can buy it. 10$ at godaddy but i don't think it's necessary
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:21:11 -0500, Chad Perrin perrin@apotheon.com wrote:
Tomer Chachamu wrote:
"Wikipedia" in Hebrew: xn--7dbcbqab9ewa.org "Wikipedia" in Arabic: (I'm guessing) is xn--mgbbv2fyambbb.org (I took this from the Main Page in Arabic; it's the text in quotes)
Are there plans to register these domains? What about Japanese, etc, etc?
Is Punycode even commonly used in the countries of those languages? I know that in Israel it is common to see latinised domains (http://www.shesh.co.il http://www.walla.co.il http://www.nana.co.il etc) instead of domains in Unicode.
Internet Explorer does not appear to support Punycode.
It doesn't. Unfortunately, punycode (for IDN support) presents a huge security vulnerability for browsers at this time, so even on non-IE browsers a lot of people are turning off IDN support. The problem is that punycode allows easy spoofing of many domain names by using character homographs in the URL. I, for instance, have IDN support turned off in Firefox.
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