It is both good and bad.
Good in that you will now have more people making more web pages
using foreign and native characters to create such web pages. (Did I
say good?)
Bad in that you have done away with standardization of any type.
There is a reason that all airplane pilots must know English and
English is the standard language for air navigation.
With the fact that some languages are written from left to right and
that some languages have a number of different ways to write them it
makes doing this somewhat of a nightmare.
So it depends on which side you look at this.
Stewart
At 08:42 AM 10/27/2009, you wrote:
I read that ICANN is planning on changing the rules of Web
addresses, by allowing non-Latin alphabet characters. Here's the link:
http://www.switched.com/2009/10/26/web-to-go-truly-world-wide-with-non-latin-urls/
"According to the Daily Mail, the ICANN board will pass a resolution
this Friday that will allow entire Web addresses to be written in
non-Latin alphabets. Those languages could be anything from Japanese
to Arabic, or Hindi to Greek. The change means that many people
around the world could more easily navigate the Web, and even create
Web sites in their native tongue. Of the 1.6 billion people who use
the Internet, about half are native speakers of languages that do
not use the Latin alphabet. "This is the biggest change technically
to the Internet since it was invented 40 years ago," said ICANN
chairman Peter Dengate Thrush"
What are your thoughts about it?
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