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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 08:38 AM Original message |
'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
1. The tower of Babel all over again. Now there will be millions of web sites we can't visit |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 10:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. It means you can't type the address in, but how often do you? |
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kirby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 10:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Useless... |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 11:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Heh - that made me wonder if Google Translate can cope with it yet |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 11:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. But how am I going to type in such a URL? |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 11:49 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. But that doesn't mean you can't visit the site |
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piedmont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 12:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. But you do have to find a page that links to it if you yourself can't type in the address. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 12:50 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. How often do you know a website address if you haven't got it on a computer? |
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piedmont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 01:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I give out my web address all the time by telephone, in person, on business cards, etc. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 02:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
27. ".msr" |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 11:59 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. You don't visit them now, since you can't read those languages |
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Retrograde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 12:05 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. They're all just ones and zeroes anyway |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 01:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. Newsflash: much of the Internet is not in English. (nt) |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 01:59 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. once the internets tolerated Klingon and l33t-speak, it was all over |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
29. Nonsense. |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 04:09 AM Response to Reply #1 |
35. Ah... But if you desire you can get those keyboards |
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Chicago dyke (127 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 06:00 AM Response to Reply #1 |
36. i admit i enjoy english language websites |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
10. As a web dev, makes it a bit harder to parse URLs.. |
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ManiacJoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 09:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. Should be the same algorithm. |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 10:56 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. well yah, that too.. |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 11:23 PM Response to Reply #19 |
31. Your email validating regex is wrong, anyways. I'm 100% certain of it. |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 10:04 PM Response to Reply #31 |
38. DU munged it (forgot it doesn't like brackets). |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 02:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
26. There's a Georgian character that looks almost exactly like a lower-case "h" |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
14. This could be worse than Y2K |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
16. I thought the Pope was going to release an official pronouncement over the web in the vernacular. |
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bamacrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
18. Do Islamic computers type right to left? |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 11:29 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. "Islamic" computers might be in Malay or Indonesia. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 02:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. It's handled by Unicode in modern operating systems |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 01:28 AM Response to Reply #18 |
34. Answer is yes... I often get the automatic Arabic version of websites |
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marshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-06-10 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
20. Will that make it easier for China to police its citizens access to the web? |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
22. that's actually pretty cool. best of luck to them. |
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ChromeFoundry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
23. Regular Expression validations... |
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hayu_lol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 02:24 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Had one of these find it's way onto my newsfeed page on... |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 03:00 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. I just tried it on Debian Lenny; works fine |
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ChromeFoundry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 10:30 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Good to know it works... |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 11:28 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. We need regex in hosts files... |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 05:02 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. Look at adns |
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Clovis Sangrail (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
33. bad idea |
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