Hi John,
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 03:49:27PM +0000, JOHN DAVEY wrote:
> It wasn't really that which was interesting to me. What this means
> is that I can use a symbol of possibly in future an image as the
> name of the record label I want to start. A bit like when Prince
> changed his name to a symbol. It kind of ligitamises symbols and
> also means I don't have to spend hours trying to think up an
> origional name....
My keyboard doesn't have a TAFKAP symbol on it. If we assume that
somewhere in Unicode a TAFKAP symbol does exist, and Prince made it
the only way to get to his web site, I don't think I'd be visiting
it since I'd find it very hard to actually type.
So your dreams of having a unique web address I think will not be
realised by this because the reality is that you will still need a
name that people in the English-speaking world can type and put
into
search engines. It would remain a nice gimmick.
The actual use is for sites that have common characters that their
user base can actually type. Most popular top-level domains already
accept IDN registrations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_nameCheers,
Andy
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...but you wouldn't need to be able to actually generate the symbol yourself. You could just use the already existing one!....
