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ICANN Approves Internationalized Chinese Domain Names

Posted by timothy on from the beats-nationalized-any-day dept.

philalethiac writes "Millions of Chinese language users will soon be able to access the Internet using Chinese script following a decision today by ICANN's Board of Directors to approve a set of Chinese language internationalized domain names."

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  1. Re:ICANN speak Chinese but Slashdot can't by tlhIngan · · Score: 3, Informative

    I guess, until Slashdot enables the UTF character set like everyone else has for the past decade or so,

    1. There will be some domain names that we can't link to on Slashdot

    Slashdot did allow Unicode. Then things like like this happened. Blame the comment trolls for forcing Slashdot to use a whitelist of characters allowed.

    As for domain names, from what I see, they start with a standard prefix (I think it's "xn--") followed by the Unicode codepoints. Just so they're compatible across all systems. Browsers can choose to display the codepoints, or, I'm seeing an option to not do that, so you can tell Paypal.com from xn--blahblabblah.xn--blah.

  2. Re:compromise idea to prevent regional isolation by ashenden · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't get it: gTLDs and ccTLDs are being translated (aliased) as well. When this is done, for, say, the Japanese user, there will be no need for any ASCII, whatsoever. As for mapping to ASCII, all IDNs are mapped to punycode, which is ASCII, but it will be invisible. And mixed scripts aren't allowed, so phishing fears are overblown; it won't be any worse than it is today. IDNs should have been a part of the original DN structure, but better late than never. It's simply idiotic to have an entire website in Japanese, except for the DN.