11 TLDs with non-english characters are being tested.
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If the global tests go well, non-English domain names could be in use by the end of 2008.
Users outside the United States long have clamored for non-English domain-name scripts, finding restrictive the current limitation to the letters A through Z, the numbers 0 through 9 and the hyphen.
The 11 suffixes now under review will read "test" in Arabic, Persian, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil.
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http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-internet5oct05,1,7130938.story?coll=la-headlines-technology&ctrack=1&cset=true