For all of you feeling that the huge expansion of gTLDs is incautious, wait till you get a load of unicode in DNS: http://unicode.org/faq/idn.html
Oh yes, and this is happening in gTLDs now, too.
I'm amazed how many places unicode has been jammed in without regard for how utterly unlike ASCII and left-to-right plaintext it is. Check out the vertical text overflowing its boundaries in Youtube comments. Also look at how Youtube's attempts to block keywords from spam are evaded by lookalike characters.
I suspect unicode's keepers won't be satisfied unless it can render any monochrome bitmap via a cryptic formatting language the rest of us still naively treat as plaintext in order to slap a "localizable" label on our software.
Come on...give the ICANN (or the next governing body) 20 more years to fix this and we should make it. Internet is only 25 years old and new gTLDs are celebrating their first year of anniversary.
Oh yes, and this is happening in gTLDs now, too.
I'm amazed how many places unicode has been jammed in without regard for how utterly unlike ASCII and left-to-right plaintext it is. Check out the vertical text overflowing its boundaries in Youtube comments. Also look at how Youtube's attempts to block keywords from spam are evaded by lookalike characters.
I suspect unicode's keepers won't be satisfied unless it can render any monochrome bitmap via a cryptic formatting language the rest of us still naively treat as plaintext in order to slap a "localizable" label on our software.