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Internet Governance Glossary

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2.33 Internationalized Domain Name / IDN

Domain name that includes characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic Latin alphabet
 

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An IDN can contain Latin letters with diacritical marks, as required by many European languages, or may consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese.