Sri Lanka to commence enabling Sinhala and Tamil scripts for top-level domain names
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and local experts in policy, technical and linguistic fields convened in Colombo recently to introduce the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) program and launch the Sinhala Generation Panel (GP).
The launch signifies a future where the local community contributes towards developing secure and stable access to the Internet in Sinhala.
The Asia Pacific region is linguistically diverse. Of the 6,800 languages in the world, about half of them or 3,500 are spoken in APAC. 21 of the top 30 most spoken languages in the world are used in the region.
This diversity adds challenges to the Internet domain name space.
“IDNs are domain names represented by letters or characters from different scripts and writing systems. They ...