Erik van der Poel <erik at vanderpoel dot org> wrote: >> For a gTLD, the language tag comes in handy, so we >> could apply different language tables to IDNs according to their >> intended language. > > This is not really in the spirit of DNS itself, though. Before IDN was > invented, people registered domain names that weren't in any language. > For example, the name "microsoft" was not a word in any language when > it was first introduced.
I hope Erik is able to get this message across, because I haven't, despite many attempts. For each of the following domain names, determine the "intended language": * google * altavista * yahoo * m-w * taco (this one may surprise you) -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
