Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Internet gets a desi flavor!

Now, users can type Web addresses in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi and Telegu. This has become possible with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which allows the use of seven Indian languages in Web address. At present, Internet addresses are limited to Latin characters from ‘A to Z’. Domain names-.com, .net, .org, .in-are used as identification labels. More languages would be added in the near future. The Department of Information Technology has started giving free fonts in 22 official Indian languages.

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