For Non-ASCII URLs, user have to switch input set, non-ASCII DNS have to be deployed, that's not convenient, thus, not popular.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Contributor Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:19 AM To: Chromium-discuss Subject: [chromium-discuss] Re: Address bar input language What if this behavior was configurable? I still think there are more people who would love it if address bar was ASCII only. Oh, but these days address bar also performs auto-complete based on matching page titles (not only URLs), I guess it's not such a good idea after all.. On Jul 22, 3:22 pm, mhenriday <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm one of those people who use non-ASCII URLs, for example, when > checking out sites in Chinese or japanese. I assure you that I'd be > most upset if Chrome or any other browser were to hinder me in this > regard. The point of a good browser is flexibility - it should do what > I want it to do, not the other way 'round !... > > Henri > > On Jul 21, 11:18 pm, krtulmay <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Well, there must be some or many people that are using and entering > > non-Latin URLs. > > > Why else are there Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) ?http://www.google.com/search?q=Internationalized+domain+name > > > On Jul 21, 11:45 am, Contributor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have more than one keyboard input language installed, I switch > > > between the languages often depending on which website (mostly social > > > networking) I'm using and who I'm writing to. But when I open a new > > > tab/window and try to type the URL I must always switch to English. I > > > don't think people ever type URLs in an alphabet other than Latin. I > > > think it would be nice if while typing in Address Bar input language > > > always defaulted to English (and switched back to whatever the > > > language was active prior to that whencursor leaves the address bar). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
