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Internet users who don’t speak languages that are written using the Roman alphabet can now test web addresses in their native tongues.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is responsible for governing top-level domain names such as .com and .net, has created a test that allows users to visit web pages with URLs in 11 additional languages. The languages are Arabic, Persian, simplified and traditional Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil.

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