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Internationalized Domain Names Coming Soon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the untypable dept.

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 ... :-)"

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  1. Why not by Pingular · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I guess it would be difficult to talk about this on /., since it does not even support basic Latin-1
    Just say the ascii number?

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  2. Taco, why did you remove the accents from slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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    Taco est un mechant garcon.
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  3. Super Monkeys! by Speare · · Score: 5, Funny

    Any Internet RFC which includes the phrase, -with-SUPER-MONKEYS, has GOT to be good. (And in case you think I'm trolling, check the link.)

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  4. Re:FINALLY! by arcanumas · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm glad to see that people other than Americans are being recognized on the internet. Which originally started as an American military project...

    I am glad too see others than the Mesopotamians using the wheel which was originally invented for use in Mesopotamia.

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  5. it works fine on /. by GillBates0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    - - - - ..
    I, for one, welcome our new European overlords.

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  6. I can't wait by nizo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally I can't wait to see funky chinese character domain names in my web logs (mostly from infected windows machines trying to attack my apache server).

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  7. Re:FINALLY! by cynicalmoose · · Score: 4, Funny

    The internet was built as a highly decentralised, noncontrolled network, so that, in the event of a nuclear war, military leaders would have unrivalled access to pornography. (3DTIAB)

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