Next stop for Khmer script: domain names

Internet domain names in Khmer script could become a reality in the next year, according to Seng Sopheap, president of the National Institute of Posts, Telecommunications and ICT. Over the past 10 months, the institute’s academics, along with officials from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and technical experts, have been preparing a set of standard linguistic rules for Khmer domain names.

On Monday, they submitted a final version to the Los Angeles-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages global domain name systems. “Until now, domain names could only be in ASCII,” Sopheap said, referring to the characters on most keyboards. “It’s not good, because people don’t know Latin characters.”

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