https://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/tags/unicode/ Recent content in Unicode on OliverBrown.me.uk Hugo en-us Tue, 23 May 2006 15:10:05 +0000 https://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/05/23/some-very-silly-domains/ Tue, 23 May 2006 15:10:05 +0000 https://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/05/23/some-very-silly-domains/ <p>Ever heard of Internationalised Domain Names? They allow you to register domains with non-Latin characters (i.e. Unicode). They actually do a bit of cheating but I&rsquo;ll let you find that out. In the meantime check out these interesting addresses showing that just using Chinese or Arabic characters is not the limit IDNs.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.%C2%AE.com/">http://www.®.com/</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.%C2%A9.com/">http://www.©.com/</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.%E2%82%AC.com/">http://www.€.net/</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.%E2%98%8E.com/">http://www.☎.com/</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.%E2%99%AC%E2%99%AC.com/">http://www.♬♬.com/</a></li> </ul> <p>Quick warning, they don&rsquo;t work in IE without a plugin and to see them in their true glory you need Opera&hellip;</p>