[Chapter-delegates] Difficulties displaying IDNs
Franck Martin
franck at sopac.org
Wed Oct 17 18:42:43 PDT 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_typefaces
Seems also that DejaVu Font is becoming a widely used font on some systems.
Cheers
Rajnesh D. Singh wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> 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):
>
> --------->
> Earlier this week, we inserted
> <http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_sample_internationalized_domain_test/>
> 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).
>
> This blog post is not about that. (If you’re interested about it, read
> our report on the delegations
> <http://www.iana.org/reports/testetal-report-01aug07.htm>.)
>
> 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.
>
> Full post here:
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/7101414_difficulties_displaying_internationalized_domains/
>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Rajnesh D. Singh
>
> Chairman
> Pacific Islands Chapter, ISOC
> www.picisoc.org <http://www.picisoc.org>
>
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Franck Martin
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SOPAC, Fiji
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