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Originally Posted by wrdekle Dude I believe IDN will pretty much miss malaysia, phillipines, and indonesia as bahasa, malaysian, and tagalog (all related languages) use ASCII. If not, I'd appreciate a correction pronto. If you are just interested in just the ASCII domains with co.id extension then please disregard.
As for Hindi - they use a script form devanagari descended from sanskrit. Though english is widely spoken, it is not the language of the masses. |
That has been very much my assessment to date, but with Vietnamese a lot of IDN have been registered because although it is essentially Latin based now, it still uses a lot of accents. Jury is still out whether those accents will be used extensively in Domain Names or not. I think the tide is now actually moving in favour of IDN, but you should be aware of the risk that ASCII may still predominate in such langauages.
When it comes to Chinse and Japanese the scenario is quite different. Romanji and Pinyin will turn as sour as last weeks milk. The same is also undoubtedly true for transliterations of Russian, Hindi and Arabic.