Quoting Don Osborn: > I had an inquiry about use of Unicode in Internationalization of Domain > Names in Africa (it will be a topic at the ICANN conference in Cape Town > next month). Is anyone aware of URLs that use extended Latin characters > as examples? I'm looking for examples especially but not necessarily only > for African languages.
I only recently joined the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list and was not aware of its sibling [EMAIL PROTECTED] until the message quoted above was cross-posted. (I don't know how the list server manages cc's to multiple lists and apologize if the present message lands twice in anyones mailbox.) I am responsible for the .museum TLD, in which extensive IDN support is being developed. Information about this is available at http://about.museum/idn/. Following the link to the "sample IDN application" near the bottom of that page will lead to a list of IDN URLs in a range of scripts. There is a further link to a presentation of this at the IDN workshop held at the most recent ICANN meeting in Kuala Lumpur. I'm also involved in preparation for the IDN workshop at the coming ICANN meeting in Cape Town and would be pleased to discuss applications of IDN in the management of heritage associated with African languages, both with specific regard to that event and generally. I am equally interested in the broader utility of Unicode for enhancing the museum community's presence on the Internet and would be delighted to discuss all aspects of this matter, including the fullest possible cultivation of IDN in the .museum domain, both on and off this list. /Cary
