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IDN Engineers: "We are done." |
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Written by IDNFAQ
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
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Kieren McCarthy's latest Guardian piece, 'How engineers tamed the internet's Tower of Babel,' looks at the complexities involved in creating the system of Punycode identifiers to represent the Unicode characters for a multitude of world languages.
New standards mean that all the world's languages can now finally be used on the world wide web.
At a United Nations meeting last month, a bespectacled Swede made a small, barely noticed announcement that nevertheless represented a pivotal moment in the history of the internet.
"Regarding the technical implementation for the world wide web, we are done," Patrik Fältström told the Internet Governance Forum. By "we are done", he meant that following a decade of hard work by a global consortium of engineers and linguists, they had finally decided on a document that will enable all the world's languages to be fully represented on the internet. People will be able to type in addresses in their own language, search in their own language and move around the internet in their own language.
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Internationalized Domain Names: Progress and Future |
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Written by IDNFAQ
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Thursday, 16 November 2006 |
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ICANN Announces IDN Roadmap - Dr Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN comments on the progress being made towards finalizing the worldwide IDN infrastructure.
"Millions of people in Europe and Asia whose languages do not rely on Roman characters are already reaping the benefits of this work" Dr Twomey said.
"We are now in the final stages of what is a very complex process, that is, putting IDNs to the right of the dot" he said.
"ICANN believes that all this testing and discussions will reach a resolution by the end of 2007" Dr Twomey said.
"We are committed to the introduction of IDN top level domains as soon as all these necessary processes are complete" he said.
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First Wave of Localized IE7 Releases Now Available |
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Written by IDNFAQ
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Saturday, 04 November 2006 |
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Microsoft's Tony Chor recently announced the availability of international versions of the IDN compatible Internet Explorer 7.
We have released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP in five new languages: German, Japanese, French, Spanish, and Finnish. You can download these today from the .
As with the English version, we’re making the localized downloads available a few weeks ahead of distribution via Automatic Updates. German, French, Spanish and Finnish users should be prepared for AU distribution by mid-November. Japanese AU distribution will begin this spring.
We will release additional languages as they are ready over the next few months. I talked about the details on all the versions, MUI packs, and Language Interface Packs in this earlier post.
Read more on IEBlog
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