According to these various articles, starting 2010, web addresses may be typed in scripts other than the Latin alphabet.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/int ... =221400225

http://www.ciol.com/Global-News/News-Re ... 9126944/0/

I think this will be an interesting concept considering it's been more than 40 years since the internet was created. Considering all the technological leaps forward since then, it's been a long time coming!

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I heard of this months ago, and how it could potentially be used for phishing. For example, the Cyrillic <а>, <е>, <о> look exactly like Latin <a>, <e>, <o>, as well as the usual graphemes for /s/ and /r/: <с>, <р>.

This means that for example, I could create another site phishing omniglot.com by using cyrillic <o> for the first <o>, and you wouldn't even notice it.

This guy had even created that for paypal.com, changing the first <a> to Cyrillic a:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2 ... hac_1.html
(Though just as an example, and after the Paypal people contacted him he put the page down.)

That's an excellent point, I hope that people aren't caught out by that.

I believe there are measures in place to prevent that.

Anyway, I had heard about this before and I agree it's long overdue.

That's what I used to get past censors on certain forums.

Well, in some browsers it would be a little obvious. I think the current version of Internet Explorer always show non-Basic Latin characters with Percent-encoding on the status bar when you move the mouse over the link (even though URLs when copied from the URL bar are copied with Unicode in IE, when Firefox copies them with percent-encoding).

Me too, as well as MM online games when I used to play those things.

One nice example is [url=http://www.☺.com/]☺.com[/url] (U+263A WHITE SMILING FACE dot com). For instance, what do you see in the status bar when you pass the mouse over?

EDIT: It seems the forum won't accept the link without percent encoding, hmm... However I don't know how to do the convertion, and unfortunately the site is redirected to another one so can't copy the URL off Firefox either. But try pasting in the URL bar anyway.

Isn't this already possible? I often browse the Japanese Wikipedia & all the article urls contain Japanese text.

For Wikipedia in other languages, the domain name is written in the Latin alphabet and the page name in the language, like this: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本語. I guess this means the entire URL could be written in a non-Latin script.

I am looking forward for the following web-address to be made availible:
网路://满州丽雅.ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ.‍ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨ/archives.记录