Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Arabic letters and Russia to address Internet


Since opening the opportunity to have domain names with non-Latin letters began years ago, many countries are already enrolled. However, only four states that approved ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).

Each Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Russia. Three countries use Arabic letters in the form of a word,. EGYPT,. ASSAUDIYAH, and. Emirate. While Russia chose. Cyrrilic RF in the letter which is typical of the country's alphabet. The fourth new domain name will be used that ICANN announced on Thursday (21/1/2010).

These four countries will apply non-Latin letters in full on the system's new internet address. This berb eda with other countries who may only use the domain name as the address itself remains lettered Latin.

"Some countries have also suggested domain names with non-Latin letters other, but only the non-Latin akhirannya," said Tina Dam, ICANN's senior director, such as AP released on Thursday (21/1/2010).

As is known, a sentence in Arabic is written from left to right reverse sentences with Latin letters. While in some Cyrrilic letters resemble Latin alphabet characters, so can one write.

All four countries have received this approval must submit a formal request to ICANN. Next, will be tested to ensure no GGU replacing the Internet addressing system that had prevailed before being implemented.

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