International Domain Names (and TLDs)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10100108.stm

Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses that contain no Latin characters.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to have so-called "country codes" written in Arabic scripts.
The move is the first step to allow web addresses in many scripts including Chinese, Thai and Tamil.

Time to upgrade all those crappy hardcoded email and URL validation regular expressions.
(Twitter doesn't auto-link http://موقع.وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/ yet. 🙂 )

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