international domain names & foreign language characters

[Makaveli2007]

Say you get a foreign language domain name with German characters in it (I am German, btw). Would you do it?

Or is there a problem with type-ins if a German character such as "ü" is an "ue" in the domain name?

What Im wondering especially is: What will happen in the future? Will the "ue" be replaced with the real German characters in the near future and thus the type-in traffic will stay away?

Do the search engines consider this an exact match domain, btw?

thanks!

[HuskyPup]

I feel the major problem to this is the keyboard and how they are configured since, for example, if I want to use the umlaut it takes me forever to find it and the same goes for other specialised characters etc in other languages.

At the end of the day the search engines, the searcher and web designers/constructor, need to try and present information in the fastest and simplest form therefore it may only have a limited appeal in one language market rather than across the board.

I can see no reason why a search engine would not see it as an exact match however how many would actually type that in is altogether another variable.

I believe the Chinese have already perfected a simplified language using their own characters however my Chinese is pretty rubbish therefore I have no idea if it works in practice.

I'll just wait to prove myself wrong in 5 years!