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Published 10/30/2009 by Nine MSN Money


Internet set for language revolution

By Christian Oliver in Seoul and Kathrin Hille in Beijing , Financial Times, 30 Oct 2009

The world body controlling internet addresses agreed on Friday to allow countries to mark their territory not only with their own abbreviations, such as .uk or .fr, but with their own alphabets...

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Internet addresses can now be in Hindi, Arabic ...
SEOUL: The non-profit body that oversees Internet addresses approved on Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on the Latin alphabet ... - [10/30/2009 - The Hindu]
ICANN Opens Huge International Gold Rush
Domain squatters better start breaking out copies of Rosetta Stone language learning software.ICANN, the committee responsible for coordinating Internet domain names, ... - [10/30/2009 - Business Insider]
Arabic web addresses to go live tomorrow - [10/29/2009 - ITP.net]
Internet addresses set for change - [10/30/2009 - BBC]
Internet domains go Arabic and Chinese - [10/30/2009 - CNN]
Hebrew, Hindi, other scripts to be allowed in ... - [10/30/2009 - Dallas Morning News]
Internet domain names set to appear in non-Lati... - [10/30/2009 - CNN]
Internet goes Arabic and Chinese - [10/30/2009 - CNN]
ICANN gives non-Latin scripts the nod - [10/30/2009 - ZDNet Australia]
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...referral links. "This is a huge and positive change in internet history" said Wang Peng, senior...
Internet set for language revolution [Nine MSN Money - 10/30/2009]
...service provider. "This will bring access for more people to get to know the internet without even a basic knowledge of English letters." The end of Latin rule...
Internet set for language revolution [Nine MSN Money - 10/30/2009]
...called the step "a historic move toward the internationalisation of the internet ... We just made the internet much more accessible to millions of people in regions such as Asia, the Middle East and Russia."
Internet set for language revolution [Nine MSN Money - 10/30/2009]

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