- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:34:34 +0900
- To: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Cc: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>, "'WWW International'" <www-international@w3.org>, W3C Offices <w3c-office-pr@w3.org>, public-i18n-core@w3.org
At 01:11 07/10/27, Daniel Dardailler wrote: >> Also, on a second level, >> many IDN labels already exist, without any big problems. > >Speaking of which, I've seen a CENTER Can you give a URI for CENTER? This is a word that just doesn't work as such in a search engine. >study a year or so ago on penetration of >second level IDN in ccTLDs that allowed them, and it was not very good, a few >digit% compared to non IDN. This is very understandable. At the 2004 ICANN meeting in Kuala Lumpur (the only ICANN meeting I ever participated), I identified the lack of non-ASCII TLDs and IE6 (which doesn't support IDNs unless you install a plugin) as the two blocking factors for wide IDN usage. The IE6 market shares reported are still between 20% and 50%, and non-ASCII TLDs not available yet, such low numbers come at no surprise to me. Regards, Martin. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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