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Internationalizing the domains names is utterly pointless. Most keyboards in the world are in latin, which means that people who use a different alphabet have t

by zeeone 17y ago

Internationalizing the domains names is utterly pointless. Most keyboards in the world are in latin, which means that people who use a different alphabet have to switch keyboard mode. It's just not convenient. Imagine this: > goole.com > Alt-Shift-Win (to switch) > говедо.ком > Alt-Shift-Win (switch back) Bah ... bulshit.

ivan_i 17y ago
Why do you think that Google woudn't register something like гугл.рф? I think it's for folks from the pure rural areas who don't know the latin alphabet at all. They have a right to use computers and the internet too.
- dmix 17y ago
  But... the keyboards.
- zeeone 17y ago
  You're missing the point. The folks in the rural areas won't be able to use a computer in the first place, because the keyboards are in latin. I've never seen a Cyrillic or Arabic keyboard.
  - denik 17y ago
    Every keyboard sold in Russia has both latin and cyrillic letters on it.
    - ilyak 17y ago
      ...and newer Windows default on the local (i.e. cyrillic) layout. Some clueless linux distros even install cyrillic layout as the only one; which is completely unusable of course.