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Family of Korean IDNs

The following is a list of functioning Korean IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names). They all belong to the same Computer Repair Company. The TLD (Top Level Domain) used is 닷컴 which is Verisign's new Korean language equivalent to their com TLD. Each IDN contains 컴퓨터수리 which means Computer Repair. The only difference between these IDNs is the first two characters which are the names of South Korean cities. I think this is clever and creative use of IDNs! The last two IDNs below are structured differently. The first two characters are, I think, a neighbourhood and the first two characters after the hyphen are the city. The cities are: 시흥 Siheung, 부천 Bucheon, 창원 Changwon, 마산 Masan, 평택 Pyeongtaek, 오산 Osan, 진해 Jinhae, 김해 Gimhae, 부산 Busan. 시흥컴퓨터수리.닷컴 부천컴퓨터수리.닷컴 창원컴퓨터수리.닷컴 마산컴퓨터수리.닷컴 평택컴퓨터수리.닷컴 오산컴퓨터수리.닷컴 진해컴퓨터수리.닷컴 김해컴퓨터수리.닷컴 북동컴퓨터수리-창원컴퓨터수리.닷컴 우동컴퓨터수리-부산컴퓨터수리.닷컴 Update 9th March 2017: Here is another family of Computer Repair 컴퓨터수리 IDNs with a different registrant. 김포컴퓨터수리.닷컴 안양컴퓨터수리....

Computer Science Internationalization — Bidi

Scripts such as Latin are written from Left to Right (L➡︎R). Scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew are written Right to Left (L⬅︎R). What happens when we mix L➡︎R and L⬅︎R scripts within a document? Here is an exercise in mixing scripts. Take a mixed bidi (bidirectional) string consisting of Latin and Hebrew characters in a L➡︎R paragraph. abcאבגdef ...and here is the same string in a L⬅︎R paragraph. abcאבגdef Now to the actual exercise. Copy the above stings to your text editor or word processor. You will need to setup the 2nd occurrence of the string as a L⬅︎R paragraph. I am assuming that your directionality is L➡︎R by default. Each string has two boundaries where the text changes direction. For each boundary you are going to insert a character, either a L➡︎R, such as x, or a L⬅︎R, such as ד. For each insertion operation use the initial mixed bidi string. There are two mixed strings above and so there are a total of 8 insertion operations. The challenge is to pre...