(joe mccarron) wrote in message . com...
why would someone post a link in english to a website written in
russian? If the site linked is in russian shouldn't the link itself
be in russian?

No, the link cannot be in Russian because URLs - by the
standard - can contain only English symbols (not Russian,
not German, etc.). W3C works in this area - may be in the
future all Web Servers and corresponding software will accept
Unicode(UTF-8) symbols in URLs, but it's in the future...

So eventhough it is *easy* to post here in Cyrillic, it does not
matter - links are never Cyrillic.

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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/