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Published 11/01/2009 by TechRadar.com


Non-alphabet web addresses for China et al

From next year, internet users in the roughly 50 per cent of the world that doesn't use the Roman alphabet will no longer have to struggle with the ABCs of domain names after web authorities voted to allow other scripts.

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...that it would "help to bring the first of billions more people online – people who never use Roman characters in their daily lives."
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