[UA-discuss] [Ext] The Open Dot as a label delimiter in Chinese and Japanese

Fri Nov 3 02:07:46 UTC 2017

Thanks Zuan Zhang and Tex.

I the Open Dot widely used in domain names as label separators?

D

> On 3/11/2017, at 3:05 PM, Peter Green <seekcommunications at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Don,
> 
> This is Zuan Zhang from China.
> In Chinese, we use "。”  rather than “.” to end a sentence. This is common sense.
> Everywhere, including in social media, as long as it is written in Chinese.
> 
> Take the ICANN announcements released in Chinese as an example:
> 
> 
> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-4-2017-11-02-zh[icann.org] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_news_announcement-2D4-2D2017-2D11-2D02-2Dzh&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=YI0XKyKCabKQi3GVWLvuoyCWjH9WBgEBxLbMnmhSRwo&m=aub6d-4arBOj9SkgZhyYmq3soM8JQIXzoaxnWkB0dGw&s=_BsAzVadlHJv2CRCMO2u6AkielXcwJfJ39fgzN3ws_I&e=>
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> Hope this helps.
> 
> Best Regards
> Zuan Zhang(Peter Green)
> 
> 发件人: ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org <ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org> 代表 Tex <textexin at xencraft.com>
> 发送时间: 2017年11月3日 9:28
> 收件人: 'Don Hollander'; 'Universal Acceptance'
> 主题: Re: [UA-discuss] The Open Dot as a label delimiter in Chinese and Japanese
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> If you look at any site in Japanese, such as sony.jp, or japantimes http://members.japantimes.co.jp/sub/index_ja.html[members.japantimes.co.jp] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__members.japantimes.co.jp_sub_index-5Fja.html&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=YI0XKyKCabKQi3GVWLvuoyCWjH9WBgEBxLbMnmhSRwo&m=aub6d-4arBOj9SkgZhyYmq3soM8JQIXzoaxnWkB0dGw&s=XUTR1D1YULFOZm23G8l_h6cnMdT7jeUux8tVvryI7uQ&e=>, et al, and look at articles or any area that has full sentences as opposed to labels or headlines, you will see open dots used alongside Japanese text and no ascii dots.
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> I also see open dots in Japanese tweets https://twitter.com/JN_Japanese[twitter.com] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_JN-5FJapanese&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=YI0XKyKCabKQi3GVWLvuoyCWjH9WBgEBxLbMnmhSRwo&m=aub6d-4arBOj9SkgZhyYmq3soM8JQIXzoaxnWkB0dGw&s=tt-opfnd7hjPkqINQezQjgRj5nAT5fw5KpSyvZzu82Y&e=>
> [twitter.com] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_JN-5FJapanese&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=YI0XKyKCabKQi3GVWLvuoyCWjH9WBgEBxLbMnmhSRwo&m=aub6d-4arBOj9SkgZhyYmq3soM8JQIXzoaxnWkB0dGw&s=tt-opfnd7hjPkqINQezQjgRj5nAT5fw5KpSyvZzu82Y&e=>	
> The Japan News 日本語 (@JN_Japanese) | Twitter[twitter.com] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_JN-5FJapanese&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=YI0XKyKCabKQi3GVWLvuoyCWjH9WBgEBxLbMnmhSRwo&m=aub6d-4arBOj9SkgZhyYmq3soM8JQIXzoaxnWkB0dGw&s=tt-opfnd7hjPkqINQezQjgRj5nAT5fw5KpSyvZzu82Y&e=>
> twitter.com
> The latest Tweets from The Japan News 日本語 (@JN_Japanese). 読売新聞英字新聞「The Japan News（ジャパン・ニューズ）」 からの最新 ...
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> So widespread would be an understatement. Is that what you were asking?
> tex
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> From: ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Don Hollander
> Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2017 5:10 PM
> To: Universal Acceptance
> Subject: [UA-discuss] The Open Dot as a label delimiter in Chinese and Japanese
>  
> G’day:
>  
> The UASG has in the past indicated that good practice is to treat the Open Dot as a label delimiter, just like the traditional full-stop.
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> The ideographic full stop (U+3002 [。]) is used in languages such as Chinese or Japanese to mark the end of a sentence. UASG004 states “We expect software to transform the ‘open dot’ to a standard ASCII dot “.”, thus making use of the already registered domain name.”
> We found that some browsers do this.
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> As we go through the Linkification review, we’re not seeing this happen for social media communications apps.
>  
> Does anyone have reference or even perception to how widely used the Open Dot is in Chinese, Japanese and/or other script?
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> Don
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> Don Hollander
> Universal Acceptance Steering Group
> Skype: don_hollander
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Don Hollander
Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Skype: don_hollander

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