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When website addresses using writing systems like Chinese and Arabic were introduced back in 2009, it was hailed as a step that would transform the internet. But 12 years later, the vast majority of the web remains wedded to the Roman alphabet – and ICANN, the organisation in charge of protecting the internet’s infrastructure, is on a mission to change it.
When Web site addresses using writing systems like Chinese and Arabic were introduced back in 2009, it was hailed as a step that would transform the Internet. But 12 years later, the vast majority of the Web remains wedded to the Roman alphabet — and ICANN, the organization in charge of protecting the Internet’s infrastructure, is on a mission to change it. “The truth of the matter is that even if half the world’s population uses the Internet today, it’s the elite of the world — mainly those living in cities, mainly those with a good income,” Goran Marby, head of the
When website addresses using writing systems like Chinese and Arabic were introduced back in 2009, it was hailed as a step that would transform the internet.
While it is theoretically possible to type a web address in more than 150 scripts, much of the internet remains incompatible with writing systems other than the Latin alphabet.