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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=656093300-18102007>Colleagues,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is a nice article by Kim Davies on some of
the current difficulties with displaying IDNs. Well worth a read (particularly
if you, like me, can read one of the scripts being deployed):<BR><BR></FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>---------><BR>Earlier this week, </FONT><A
href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_sample_internationalized_domain_test/"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>we inserted</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> eleven new
top-level domains in the DNS root zone. These represent the term “test”
translated into ten languages, in ten different scripts (Chinese is represented
in two different scripts, and Arabic script is used by two different languages).
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>This blog post is not about that. (If you’re
interested about it, read our </FONT><A
href="http://www.iana.org/reports/testetal-report-01aug07.htm"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>report on the delegations</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>.)
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>What I would like to talk about is some of the
difficulties we face today in expressing scripts in a consistent way over the
Internet. The fact is, whilst we are at the best time in history for having
computers represent many different languages clearly and consistently, we are
still a long way from the level of support needed to give us strong confidence
that people can always see what we intend them to see. </FONT></P><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Full post here: </FONT><A
href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/7101414_difficulties_displaying_internationalized_domains/"><FONT
face=Arial
size=2>http://www.circleid.com/posts/7101414_difficulties_displaying_internationalized_domains/</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>--</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kind regards,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rajnesh D. Singh</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=656093300-18102007>Chairman</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=656093300-18102007>Pacific
Islands Chapter, ISOC</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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href="http://www.picisoc.org">www.picisoc.org</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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