Hacklog: Blogamundo — poking holes in the language barrier since approximately 1 month from now

You may have heard that work is being to standardize URLs in non-Latin scripts.

Here’s a nice overview from the Washington Post:

Other alphabets take on English domain.

One thing that I didn’t realize was that not only domain names, but also Top-level domains are going to be localized: there will be translations of .com, .org, .net and so on in all the various scripts in Unicode: Cyrillic, Chinese, Ethiopic, etc.

Still learning about all this, myself. More links here:

• ICANN | My Name, My Language, My Internet: IDN Test Goes Live
• Global by Design » Here Comes IDNs
• Domain names go international « iheni