[thelist] [TIP] - Use UTF-8 whenever possible, or get used to extra doses of caffeine.

[VOLKAN ÖZÇELİK]

> > Why should not people who have keyboards that enter
> > characters with which they are quite comfortable from a
> > language with which they are comfortable be able to enter
> > those characters to access a URI? What is wrong with these
> > potential domains?
> >    www.özçelik.com
> >    www.περιχώρησις.com
> >    www.православная.com



Well say I've tripped to germany and  writing on a german keyboard.
How can I go to "özçelik.com"?

or say my fellow chinese friend gave me a url in chinese?
How can I type that in using my turkish (extended latin : CP1254 or
ISO-8859-9) alphabet?

This approach will result in duplicate DNS registries:
"özçelik.com" resolving to "ozcelik.com" etc.

Although I am not American, I can see that this is not ethnocentrism;
it is just using a global standard for naming URLs ubiqiutously.

Cheers,
-- 
Volkan Ozcelik
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