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• grikdog commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: World Wide Web grows wider, more worldly
  You might think the barriers between cultures are high enough already. This means that EVERYONE is going to need translators, not just armies of occupation and cops in Texas. Say......! Do you suppose this is The Next Big Thing? Of course, there's still the Jesuit Problem to work out -- if you're sympathetic enough to another culture to learn the language, it means you can no longer be trusted. My guess is, next year Microsoft buys Babelfish!...
• Mitch commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: World Wide Web grows wider, more worldly
  Do you know that there were web sites in languages other than English before? Having domain names in non-Latin character sets is going to make a small difference. I learned to read Hindi before I learned to type it. Now it there had been domain names in Hindi I might have learned to type Hindi to use them. Learning to type in a language that you're trying to learn isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's very likely that many people are going to register their domains in Latin as well as in their own native character sets to accommodate their...
• Blaatann commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: World Wide Web grows wider, more worldly
  Well.. most chinese sites are written in chinese to begin with, this isn't going to change anything other that the domain-names. The big challenges will be to upgrade all domain-servers to support unicode. Seing as I'm from a country where we too use characters not in the English alphabet, such as æ ø and å. You can use them, but the actual domain-name is translated, such that, for example; båingbåing.no is actually registered as xn--bingbing-9zae.no, but the browser translates for you. Unicode is a huge step forward....
• Xeni Jardin commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: World Wide Web grows wider, more worldly
  Hey guys -- there's an update on this post here, with lots of your questions answered. Link...
• billstewart commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: World Wide Web grows wider, more worldly
  Rachel said that this change would make it look less like the Web was "invented in America". Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the English guy who invented the World-Wide-Web while working at CERN, a European international institution in Switzerland, might find that amusing. Gopher was invented in America... I'm opposed to this change, because while having Unicode characters in domain names would be a fine thing, the xn-ugly-hack representation system called Punycode that ICANN adopted to implement it is an appalling mess. On the other hand, at least somebody's picked up the ICANN-has-cheeseburger meme :-)...