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gweyman

League eyes Arabic web address - The National Newspaper - 0 views

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arabic middle_east internet web usage statistics icann

shared by gweyman on 03 Oct 09 - Cached
  • “The next 10 million or 20 million Arab internet users will be those who do not speak English,” said Baher Esmat, the Middle East relations manager of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international body that manages the addressing system.
  • gweyman on 03 Oct 09
     
    ""The next 10 million or 20 million Arab internet users will be those who do not speak English," said Baher Esmat, the Middle East relations manager of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international body that manages the addressing system."
Ed Webb

Internet set for change with non-English addresses by AP: Yahoo! Tech - 0 views

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internet ICANN scripts internationalization

shared by Ed Webb on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • One of the key issues to be taken up by ICANN's board at this week's gathering is whether to allow for the first time entire Internet addresses to be in scripts that are not based on Latin letters. That could potentially open up the Web to more people around the world as addresses could be in characters as diverse as Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Hindi and Cyrillic
  • Of the 1.6 billion Internet users worldwide, Beckstrom — a former chief of U.S. cybersecurity — said that more than half use languages that have scripts based on alphabets other than Latin.
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