Google has just begun supporting Unicode 5.1

[zfreud]

"last December there was an interesting milestone on the web. For the first time, we found that Unicode was the most frequent encoding found on web pages, overtaking both ASCII and Western European encodings."

Official Google Blog: Moving to Unicode 5.1

Poor ASCII domainers. Shoulda. Woulda. Coulda.

Now the big question to Googstapo. When will you support IDN display URLs in Unicode format?!

[JamesZ]

The real milestone for IDN domainers will be Google displays unicode in Adwords URL.
Who wants to make a prediction on when it will happen?

[Lidador]

Indeed a turning point milestone:

[Rubber Duck]

Perhaps somebody should tell SEDO.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by Lidador

Indeed a turning point milestone:

darn, i thought i had a bug on the screen!