Re: New to Unicode

From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2006 - 07:23:34 CDT

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    From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>
    > Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:
    >>> Of course he can. He can designate Italian as QQ and French as ZZ if
    >>> he likes. But using standard codes consistently will present fewer
    >>> surprises, both to himself and to users who see the URL or have to
    >>> type it manually.
    >>
    >> Yes, but many website authors do not buy a domain name for all
    >> countries where the language is spoken.
    >
    > I didn't ask him to register domain names in different ccTLDs. He had
    > mentioned subdomains, of the general form http://www.example.com/XX.

    This is not a subdomain, but a path element. Only the following is using subdomains.

    > Later he changed his preference to http://xx.example.com. In each case,
    > he need only register one domain name.



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