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Stories · 2

  1. Internationalized Domain Names Coming Soon

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the untypable dept. · 526 comments
    rduke15 writes "You think you know how to parse a domain name for validity? Well, in case you haven't noticed, things are getting tougher as registrars keep adopting IDN (Internationalized Domain Names), which uses a weird encoding named Punycode to enable accented characters in domain names. The Register reports about Switzerland, Germany and Austria's joint move to enable IDN. See the overview in English from Switch. But I guess it would be difficult to talk about this on /., since it does not even support basic Latin-1 ... :-)"

  2. MATLAB Survey for Mac OS X

    Apple · Apple · · posted by pudge · from the if-i-were-a-mathematician-yadda-dadda-dadda dept. · 48 comments
    gsfprez writes "It's fairly simple: MATLAB wants to know if a Mac OS X port would be worth their while or not. I tell you what, I know a few engineering R&D organizations who'd have to reverse their anti-Mac IT decisions solely based on the idea that MATLAB would be available for Mac OS X because there could finally be high power, yet affordable, Unix machines running it."