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Internationalized Domain Names Coming Soon
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 ... :-)"
I give it a day before we're deluged with emails asking to send credit card numbers to a paypal.com site or domain registration renewal notices linking to networksolutions.com.
Never. ;) Actually, it's not so much the Holocaust that the g'parent was mentioning - more respect for Germany's war abilities, like winning a war with France as soon as it even existed as a unified nation. ;)
Americans are just tweaked at france cuz it didn't fall in line like Britain did.
Not the case - if that were true, you wouldn't find a littany of France jokes before 2001. But you do, because France has been a military joke for the last 200 years, approx. It's also the massive ingratitude following WWII displayed by France that tweaked Americans, combined with France's complete military ineptitude.
It's not France's not supporting the war that angers Americans so, at least me. It's the fact that they were more interested in playing politics simply to get revenge with America for some perceived slight, which prompted the move they made. That and France was trying to become a friend of Sadaam, trying to get sanctions lifted so they could trade with Sadaam, etc. I truly think that with France's support early on, the whole scenario could and would have been resolved without a war.
On the other hand, most american folks are OK with Japan these days... odd
I would say it's the way that Japan, in the wake of getting nuked, turned into a very peaceful, hard-working society. Hard not to respect that a bit.
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