[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by websjapan

what i've noticed is that a) who uses the internet from a pc in japan anyways so the most important question is will there be enough IDN enabled cell phones

b) yahoo = internet in japan. just as a while ago in the uk many people thought they had to type the domain into google to find the page, the same applies here. its gonna be a while before the japanese get into direct navigation i think. but once they get it it will be awesome

I don't think you have to worry about mobiles being IDN capable. The only browser that has ever been conceived to not cope with Punycode, but instead to talk to some imaginary Unicode ready DNS is IE6. It was obsolete when it was written. It sure as hell is obsolete now. I can't see the Japanese going for that in a big way on the mobile phone.