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Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live

Arab nations are leading a "historic" charge to make the world wide web live up to its name. Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses that contain no Latin characters. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to have so-called "country codes" written in Arabic scripts. The first country codes: Egypt: مصر Saudi Arabia: السعودية United Arab Emirates: امارات BBC News - 'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live