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Hello, I was asked to start this thread and discuss the issues surrounding the secrecy of IDN and unicode. I am not the best teacher, so please bear with me and keep in mind, that this isn't a matter of whether it's going to happen, it's a matter of when. IE7 plays a critical role in this. In a recent blog microsoft had this to say about idn.
Remember: This is Microsoft not some back alley company pushing the latest "fad." I am going to discuss the and show you that all of the major internet companies (Icann, Microsoft, Firefox, Google, Yahoo, Local Governments and more) are behind IDN and it starts at home a domainers parents with "Icann."
As I go on I will keep adding more and more info post after post so this may break up a bit, I am sorry for this but I can't do it anyother way. I will try to answer questions as I go, but I may have skip a few until I am through.
What is IDN?
Source Wikipedia.
What is unicode?
Source Wikipedia
What is punycode?
Source Wikipedia
I will continue with the next batch of information if people want me to go indepth with idn and their implementation.
Browser support for navigating to URLs written in users’ native languages is critical for making the Internet truly international.
Remember: This is Microsoft not some back alley company pushing the latest "fad." I am going to discuss the and show you that all of the major internet companies (Icann, Microsoft, Firefox, Google, Yahoo, Local Governments and more) are behind IDN and it starts at home a domainers parents with "Icann."
As I go on I will keep adding more and more info post after post so this may break up a bit, I am sorry for this but I can't do it anyother way. I will try to answer questions as I go, but I may have skip a few until I am through.
What is IDN?
Source Wikipedia.
An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that (potentially) contains non-ASCII characters. Such domain names could contain letters with diacritics, as required by many European languages, or characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese.
What is unicode?
Source Wikipedia
It's basically the countries language after a computer has translated it from punycode. 报纸.cn That is unicode.Unicode is an industry standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers.
What is punycode?
Source Wikipedia
This is how the computer reads the domain similar to ip. xn--4ruw83d.cn That is punycode.Punycode, defined in RFC 3492, is the self-proclaimed "bootstring encoding" of Unicode strings into the limited character set supported by the Domain Name System
I will continue with the next batch of information if people want me to go indepth with idn and their implementation.