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[council] Bengali and Khmer Added to IDN Testing Process
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- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:51:10 -0700
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Bengali and Khmer Added to IDN Testing Process
Internationalized Domain Name wikis now cover 17 languages
9 October 2008
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
efforts to bring the languages of the world online have expanded with the
addition of two new languages — Bengali and Khmer — to the global testing
process.
"Each time we add a new language to the wiki, we open up the chance for more
characters to be tested, and for more people to be involved and offer us input
and ideas," said Tina Dam, Director of ICANN's Internationalized Domain Name
Program "Since we launched the wiki with 11 languages in October 2007, we have
added six new languages. We will continue to add languages whenever language
communities come forward that can support a wiki."
The new Bengali and Khmer wiki pages are available off the main IDN wiki page,
idn.icann.org, and through the following links:
Bengali
bn.idn.icann.org
বাংলা .idn.icann.org
xn--54b7fta0cc.idn.icann.org
Khmer :
http://km.idn.icann.org
ភាសាខ្មែរ.idn.icann.org
http://xn--j2e7beiw1lb2hqg.idn.icann.org
Because the addresses and some content display in fonts that many Internet
users may not have loaded on their computers, ICANN has added a font page to
the IDN wiki. It allows users to see if the fonts are loaded — and if they
aren't to download them. The font page is at: http://idn.icann.org/Fonts.
ICANN is working with the larger Internet community to bring IDNs online at the
top level. This means that instead of the current Roman characters available
for domain names, close to 100,000 characters from the languages of the world
would be available.
"Our goal is for IDNs to be available when the application period for new top
level domains are launched in the second quarter of 2009," Dam added. "IDNs
will help people have their name in their language, and these wiki pages are an
important step in testing how IDNs work."
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org
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