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Web Addresses to Adopt New Alphabets
Oversight Groups Expected to Approve New Suffix Characters
By EVAN RAMSTAD and JAEYEON WOO
SEOUL -- The World Wide Web is about to start using the languages of the world.
Leaders of the private body that oversees the basic design of the Internet are expected to decide here Friday to let Web addresses be expressed in characters other than those of the Roman alphabet -- an issue for the majority of Internet users who use other alphabets in their native language. Already, portions of a Web address can be written in other languages. But the suffix, such as the "com" after the dot, must be typed in Roman letters.
The change will allow the suffix -- known as a top-level domain -- to be expressed in about 16 other alphabets. They include traditional and simplified Chinese characters, Russian Cyrillic, Korean Hangul and Hebrew. Dozens of other alphabets are likely to be added in coming years....more...
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