Google showing mutlilingual domains

Domains with ä, ö, ü now showing correctly in Google

[zgb999]

Sorry if I missed a thread about this but today was the first time I saw a domain with special caracters in the SERPS.

Though I am not able to use those domains in my browser Googles shows them correctly, e.g.
www.gädget.de/ - 25k - 14. Sept. 2004

[claus]

Nice, i was expecting this.

April 20, 2004: Google recognizing replacements for special characters in url [webmasterworld.com]

[UK_Web_Guy]

Does this mean that they are also indexing and displaying URL's in languages such as Japanese?

[Leosghost]

Presumably this means we are gonna have to buy all the dom' names that include accents just to prevent "jacking"...My credit card just had a coronary!

And what are they gonna do about the circumflex ^ ..even the Acadamie Français made the thing optional around 10 years ago ....

And how about Maltese ..some of the weirdest symbols I ever saw in a European language there ..

BTW ..Love the Maltese Islands and People ( not forgetting Gozo ) ( haven't got the symbol for the Gozitan "Z" ) if there are any around .."Saha" ...( think I remembered the spelling )..

[zgb999]

It is certainly good to have domains with special characters for a future time but as in most browsers you cannot use them (unless you download a plugin) they are not the best option.

In some years things will probably look differently.