Is it just me...

...or have people who ought to know better lost sight of the difference between "outsourcing" and "offshoring"?

Just wondering...

Curious URL...

I've just seen my first URL expressed in non-Latin characters. I'm sure there are others, but this one—found while translating—belongs to a certain "Ikar" Scientific Production Association in Krasnodar.

The URL is:

http://икар-краснодар.рф

which transliterates neatly to 'ikar-krasnodar.rf'.

My Chrome browser immediately "converted" the URL string from the multibyte Cyrillic to ASCII, like so:

http://xn----7sbbatuoc2akrcfj.xn--p1ai/

Aaarrgh!

Then returned an "incorrect key" JavaScript error (in Russian), but then... upon dismissing the error dialog box, I was presented with what appears to be the site's home page.

Life on the 'net is gonna get a lot more interesting, methinks.

Cheers...