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ICANN approves non-Latin characters for domain names

As expected, the international agency that regulates internet domain names has approved a new rule that allows URLs to be written using non-Latin characters. In other words, native speakers of Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hindi, and other languages will be able to spell out web addresses using their oown alphabets. Roughly 1.6 billion internet users speak languages that don't use Latin characters. ...