Acceptance of non-ASCII domains is likely to spur Internet adoption, since a large portion of the next billion people projected to connect to the Internet predominantly speak and write only in their local languages, says Mohan. According to a study sponsored by Google , the organisation that maintains the list of valid internet domain names , a bug that makes systems incompatible with domain names that include non - Latin characters is keeping a large proportion of the worlds population offline . Many web apps and email servers only accept domain names if they are coded in ASCII , which does n't include non - Latin characters . Adjusting the system to accept the universal character set Unicode would help open up the internet to about one billion people who speak and write only in their local languages .
According to a study sponsored by Google , the organisation that maintains the list of valid internet domain names , a bug that makes systems incompatible with domain names that include non - Latin characters is keeping a large proportion of the worlds population offline . Many web apps and email servers only accept domain names if they are coded in ASCII , which does n't include non - Latin characters . Adjusting the system to accept the universal character set Unicode would help open up the internet to about one billion people who speak and write only in their local languages .