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Web Alphabet Set to Change

in News on October 27, 2009 at 10:40 am PT

The World Wide Web is about to start using the languages of the world. Leaders of the private body that oversees the basic design of the Internet are expected to decide at a meeting here Friday to let Web addresses be expressed in characters other than those of the Roman alphabet. Already, portions of a Web address can be written in other languages. But the suffix, such as the “com” after the dot, must be typed in Roman letters.