Interesting. Perhaps it would be of interest to those supporters of Jawi as the national script. I have nothing against Jawi; I actually learnt Jawi in primary school, but have "unlearnt" it over the years since both in work and school we use the Roman/Phoenecian script. It is sad that even the Government is not interested in maintaining Jawi.
BTW can Jawi be typed in any of the distros? Eric 2011/1/26 azmi salim <azm...@gmail.com>: > Hi there friends, > An interesting development on IDN, .my Domain Resgistry has announced > support for Jawi IDN, on top of other Unicode, European and some other > selected Asian characters. > Maybe you guys / gals have know this, nevertheless I'm fwd'ing it for an > update. Pardon for repetition :) > Regards, > AZMI Salim > following is some excerpts of the announcement ---> > Dear Valued Customers, > > We are proud to announce that .my DOMAIN REGISTRY now supports > Internationalized Domain Name (IDN). > > An IDN (also known as multilingual domain name) is a domain name that > contains Unicode characters other than the basic 37 ASCII characters > permitted to-date (a-z , 0-9 and -). In other words, an IDN may contain > letters with diacritics (for example, façade) as required by many European > languages or characters drawn from non-Latin scripts such as Jawi / Arabic, > Chinese or Tamil. > > Many countries have started to offer domain names in their local scripts to > allow more of their population access the Internet. Amongst the first few > countries to deploy top level IDN are Egypt (مصر ), Saudi Arabia (السعودية ) > and United Arab Emirates (امارات ) – all on the 5th May 2010. Even two of > our neighboring countries, Thailand and Singapore, have implemented IDN. > > For Malaysia, we have decided to offer 2nd Level IDNs, starting with Jawi > (for example, مليسيا.my). Chinese and Tamil IDNs are also in the pipeline > and will be implemented progressively. For Jawi IDNs, the roll out will be > in 3 phases. In the first phase, registration of Jawi IDNs is specifically > for government agencies and government educational entities. Registrations > start from 24th January 2011 until 30th April 2011. The first phase Jawi > IDNs will be free of charge for one year. Government agencies and > government educational entities are encouraged to secure their Jawi IDNs as > soon as possible. > > Existing .my customers will enjoy Jawi IDNs in the second phase, and in the > third phase, Jawi IDNs will be opened to the public. Do keep an eye open for > the announcements on the second and third phase roll out to secure your own > Jawi IDN! > > For more information about IDN, do visit our FAQ page > at http://www.domainregistry.my/faq.php?id=98. > > Please do not hesitate to e-mail dom...@domainregistry.my or call us at 03 - > 8991 7272 if you have any enquiries. > > > Yours sincerely, > > .my DOMAIN REGISTRY > > MYNIC Berhad (735031-H) | Tel : +603-8991 7272 > Level 3, Block C | Fax : +603-8991 > 7277 > Mines Waterfront Business Park | E-mail > : dom...@domainregistry.my (Registration) > No. 3, Jalan Tasik | > bill...@domainregistry.my (Billing) > The Mines Resort City | URL > : http://www.domainregistry.my > 43300 Seri Kembangan | Work. Hr : 0830-1730MYT(Mon - Fri) > Selangor Darul Ehsan | > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
