[UA-discuss] Serbia Proposes Law Changes to Halt Cyrillic’s Decline

[Dusan Stojicevic]

Dear Mark, all,

 

Sorry for a delay in reacting, this news hits me on vacation.

As I am from Serbia, I can say that this topic reach domestic headlines because of the summer time with lack of more “important” news. Still, it brings Cyrillic script into focus and highlighted some problems considering usage of Cyrillic in one small country.

There is no mentioning of IDNs, because of several reasons. Firstly, Serbian registry, for a long time, doesn’t want to promote national IDN TLD, and the situation is more-less equal in all small non-Latin countries with IDN TLD. The number of domain names in IDNs is like a statistical error and it brings no business to registries, registrars… Simply, situation is> there is no (big) demand. It’s the same in countries which use Latin script with diacritics, number of IDNs on SLD is small.

Only in big non-Latin countries (China, Russia, India…) you can find significant number of IDN domain names. 

Patrick Fältström and me, we were talking in Tbilisi about the reasons behind that, during EuroDIG’s IDN session. I can say that the problem is not pure technical, but rather a mix: lack of usage of non-Latin script in real life (mentioned in article, Serbs knows Latin, and we use this script like our own, and situation is similar in small non-Latin countries – Georgia, Armenia, name it), and lack of natural and comfortable usage of those scripts on computers (f.e. there is no Cyrillic keyboards on laptops and for computers in Serbia; if you type SMS on Cyrillic you pay more; default settings on new mobile devices is Latin script for all apps, and you get mix of scripts if you change to non-Latin; … etc). IDNs can be just added in brackets, but certainly not as a major topic… 

People, they usually go down the line of lower resistance… 

 

Cheers,

Dusan Stojicevic 

 

 

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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbia-proposes-law-changes-to-halt-cyrillic-s-decline-08-01-2018 

 

No mention if IDNs, though.



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