[Chapter-delegates] Bulgaria moves to register Cyrillic Internet domain

[Marcin Cieslak]

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:
> Hello Alejandro Pisantry,
> 
> This is a very valid question. Localization is important, but in the
> process of localization if the localized zone becomes inaccessible
> internationally the effect would be contrary to that intended.
> 
> May be the technical community should think of a domain name
> architecture whereby there is a digitized domain name system - the
> digitized 'name' is functional at the DNS level. It is the
> digitization of a local name visible to the locals as the local
> language name, but gets converted into any other language for the
> convenience of those from the rest of the world


There is a scheme called punycode, described in RFC 3492. It is not 
perfect, but it works. Please see also RFC 3490.

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