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> People spend tons of effort to create a uniform interface > for seemingly disparate systems. The world is bigger than US and ASCII is not enough for all. >
by rimantas 15y ago
> People spend tons of effort to create a uniform interface
> for seemingly disparate systems.
The world is bigger than US and ASCII is not enough for all.
> Why anyone would think this is a great idea to
> "accommodating" other languages in this manner is beyond me.
Why? To have domain name in other languages. Or do you assume
the web is English-only?
If my favorite basketball club is "Žalgiris" why should it be zalgiris.lt instead of žalgiris.lt? And you don't know how to type in some specific URL chances are that you won't be interested in site's content anyway.
- dagw 15y agoAlso removing those 'strange' dots and dashes from a word can in many languages leave you with a new valid word, with a completely different meaning.
- lawn 15y agoFor reference a couple of years ago some county or similar here in Sweden named Hörå had their website as www.hora.se, but that actually means whore here. Now we can have our 'strange' dots though which is a good thing.