Just when I finally get my head around the Internet it gonna change
From ICANN (The Internet controller)
It has now been agreed to let the internet addresses to be in not Latin
Script. Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, etc
They say that is to enfranchise the 1.6 current non Latin script users and widen the net. (source BBC Technology)

Apart from the conversion for processing there will be other issues!

Any comments?

"It has now been agreed to let the internet addresses to be in not Latin
Script. Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, etc
They say that is to enfranchise the 1.6 current non Latin script users and widen the net. (source BBC Technology)"

Firstly, thank you for the meaningful thread title. Not quite sure what 1.6 users means, but Mongolian Cyrillic et al. might help to further the ultimate goals of the World-Wide Web, because the current anglocentric system is not really much more than a drop in the ocean.

ERRATUM ERRATUM

WRONG VERSION SENT.... SORRY (BC Before Coffee)

It should have read

Just when I finally get my head around the Internet it gonna change
From ICANN (The Internet controllING BODY)
It has now been agreed to let the internet addresses to be in not ONLY Latin script. e.g. Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, etc
They say that is to enfranchise the 1.6 BILLION current non Latin script users and widen the net. (source BBC Technology)

Apart from the conversion for processing there will be other issues!

Any comments?

Not a comment as such, but a question.

>>Apart from the conversion for processing there will be other issues!<<

For whom?

Pericles,
None for me.
However O/S comment are concerned about internal community fragmentation.(assimilation reduction issues?)(US web site)
Was one that caught my eye.
The rest of what I bothered to read were more xenophobic, racist or pro it helping aunty Maude type.

I have NO IDEA what you're on about.