Olney
12th October 2005, 01:19 AM
Unfortunately for the Asian market especially just changing Internet Explorer 7 is not enough. I realized when I came back over here that cell phones have to be upgraded also. Since I understand the business mentally of the communications companies as IDN become more popular old cell phone will most likely not be upgradable this would force users to purchase new phones.
I still have to check with the cell phone makers here but I'm not positive if they already have the ability to type in Katakana, Hiragana, or Kanji domain names. Current older phones that I've seen only gives you the option of typing in Romaji (Romain based alphabets & numbers). While viewing Yahoo Auction Japan some sellers post that the keitai (cell phone) makers are upgrading the phones.
The other thing that will have to be changed is email clients. I have to check it out a bit more thoroughly but I can't imagine my current email client correctly parsing punycode in the domain name.
But as noted the main things will be IE & Cell phones because I believe personal browsing on cell phones is more common than users going home & surfing the net.
We'll see how it goes.
I still have to check with the cell phone makers here but I'm not positive if they already have the ability to type in Katakana, Hiragana, or Kanji domain names. Current older phones that I've seen only gives you the option of typing in Romaji (Romain based alphabets & numbers). While viewing Yahoo Auction Japan some sellers post that the keitai (cell phone) makers are upgrading the phones.
The other thing that will have to be changed is email clients. I have to check it out a bit more thoroughly but I can't imagine my current email client correctly parsing punycode in the domain name.
But as noted the main things will be IE & Cell phones because I believe personal browsing on cell phones is more common than users going home & surfing the net.
We'll see how it goes.