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Question for people with experience in other languages that have their own scripts (non ascii latin scripts):

Is it common for websites to use non-ascii/unicode/punycode for their domains?

Please comment with examples and which language/script it is.

#unicode #localisation #domains #link #url #Internationalization

  • Yes, often (28%, 2 votes)
  • Yes, but rare (14%, 1 vote)
  • No not common (57%, 4 votes)
7 voters. Poll end: 1 month ago

#localisation #unicode #Link #internationalization #url #domains
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treefit
treefit
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For German I only really know the site of the city Munich: `www.münchen.de` which uses the umlaut ü. (but that just redirects to `www.muenchen.de`, ue is the alternative way to represent ü in ascii)
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treefit
treefit
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For Japanese there are even some Unicode top level domains that private companies registered, but are they actually used in the real world?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.jp#Internationalized_top-level_domains

#japanese #unicode #domains

Internet country-code top level domain for Japan

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#unicode #domains #japanese
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Patrick Mevzek
Patrick Mevzek
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You can find at ntldstats.com volumes (aka number of domains) in each gTLD, including IDNs ones. Except very specialized TLDs, IDNs are usually only a few % of all registrations for various reasons including people not knowing it is even possible (weight of history) or various complications out of them (bad software, difficulty for some to enter the name on keyboard, etc.). Note there are also "internationalized" emails now, called EAI.
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