The BBC's Jonathan Kent reports that ICANN's meeting in KL this week will focus on on agreements on standards for languages and the characters in which they are written, so that internet users who write in Chinese, Arabic, Tamil or other scripts can communicate more easily.

Interestingly the article says:
Icann says that more than 100 million people around the world have high-speed broadband connections to the net, and that nearly half of them are in Asia. The company believes that within years most internet users will live there, and they predict it will have a huge economic impact on the region.

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