The dominance of English on the internet is being challenged by the UK organisation that maintains British website addresses, in a move designed to reflect the country's multi-cultural mix.
Nominet, the not for profit company that registers internet addresses ending in .uk, yesterday launched a three-month public consultation on plans to introduce so-called international domain names (IDN).
Although internet browsers are already capable of reading text written in languages from across the globe, until now the actual website address has had to be written using the 26-letter Latin alphabet plus hyphens and the digits 0 to 9.
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