Title :
Urdu Domain Names
Author :
Hussain, Sarmad ; Durrani, Nadir
Author_Institution :
Center for Res. in Urdu Language Process., National Univ. of Comput. & Emerging Sci., Lahore
Abstract :
With of international standards, including Unicode, CLDR, HTML, etc., it is now becoming increasingly possible to develop and deploy online content in local languages across the globe. However, a user is still required to write the domain name in Latin script to access this information on the Internet, which still a barrier for non-Latin script based language speakers. This paper overviews the emerging Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) standards being proposed by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The paper also discusses challenges for implementing IDN for Urdu and a possible solution which has been implemented and is currently deployed
Keywords :
Internet; natural language processing; telecommunication standards; ICANN; Internationalized Domain Name standards; Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; Latin script; Urdu domain names; international standards; Access protocols; Cities and towns; Domain Name System; Encoding; HTML; Internet; Natural languages; Standards development; Web pages; Web server; IDN; Urdu; Urdu Normalization; Urdu ccTLD; Urdu gTLD;
Conference_Titel :
Multitopic Conference, 2006. INMIC '06. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Islamabad
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0795-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0795-8
DOI :
10.1109/INMIC.2006.358181
