Archive for June 12th, 2008

Path To Alamgeeriat: Urdu Evaluation For Internationalized Domain Names:

Published by Babar Bhatti on June 12, 2008 under Digital Divide, Education, ICT, Pakistan, Strategy & Policy, Trend Watch, Urdu

An important aspect of true internationalization of the Internet involves support of major languages such as Urdu. Dr Sarmad Hussain of National University has recently achieved a big success with the inclusion of Urdu on the Internationalized Domain Names evaluation site. A big kudos to Dr. Sarmad and his team for getting to this milestone.

Urdu is on a tier 2 list of languages that are being evaluated. Dr. Sarmad has asked people to visit the Urdu Wiki pagesfor Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and give feedback on the points requested.

I was able to browse to the original link which has the Urdu alphabet in IE and Firefox. However I could not use it directly in this post because I need to set wordpress up to support Urdu. Follow this link to go the wiki page.

Read on to see the list of few thing that you can do to test the behavior based on your own working environment. Read more »