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Re: Internationalized domain names in the root
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 12:01:50 -0700
Geoff Adams wrote:
On 5 May 2010, at 2:16 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:34 AM, David Conrad <drc () virtualized org> wrote:Perhaps a bit off-topic, but some folks might get support calls... http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/ (that's Arabic for <Ministry of Communications>.<Egypt>)Great progress and interesting addition to the root, only issue is that after all the work with IDNs you land on a page written in english (web browser lang does not matter, name resolves to the same IP as the original URL). Hope they soon take advantage of the new nameThe page shows up in Arabic for me in all three of Safari
When I first checked this site yesterday, I saw a page in English[1]. The same page is in Arabic today, in the same browsers that displayed English when I checked yesterday. I assume the server admin waited until the domain went live before implementing language display selection based on the URL used to reach the site, and now it's working correctly.
[1] Such as I see when I use this URL instead: http://www.mcit.gov.eg/ jc
Current thread:
- Internationalized domain names in the root David Conrad (May 05)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Jorge Amodio (May 05)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Geoff Adams (May 06)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Jorge Amodio (May 06)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root JC Dill (May 06)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Bill Stewart (May 06)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Zaid Ali (May 06)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Joe Abley (May 06)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Neil Harris (May 08)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Phil Regnauld (May 08)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root John Levine (May 08)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Larry Sheldon (May 08)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Jorge Amodio (May 08)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Geoff Adams (May 06)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Jorge Amodio (May 05)
- Re: Internationalized domain names in the root Peter Beckman (May 07)