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

Dr Ajay Data ajay at data.in
Fri Aug 17 06:00:05 UTC 2018


  
I just wonder how they create content for websites, so many websites have Cyrillic content.  BTW, SMS in Unicode has different character count mechanism and same situation is in India too as it take more space to store and send. Typically 160 characters of ASCII are counted as one SMS, if you send more than 160 characters upto 320, you will be charged for two SMS. Because Unicode characters can take upto 4 bytes for one characters, it gets expensive. However it is loosing its relevance as people send messages more on Whatsapp, Skype, Facebook etc. Just to share in India, As per the new mandate, all mobile phones in the country will have to provide text reading support in all Indian languages on their devices. The standard mandates mobile phone companies to provide message typing facility in English, Hindi and a regional language of their users choice .
@dusan , if you can mention the issues in using Cyrillic on computer on phone, that will be helpful. As we know that atleast on iphone and android we have full support of Cyrillic. Thanks.  
 



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From: "Mark Svancarek (CELA) via UA-discuss"   MailId : [84044661]To: Dusan Stojicevic Cc: "ua-discuss at icann.org" Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Serbia Proposes Law Changes to Halt Cyrillic&rsquos DeclineDate: 15 Aug 2018 10:31:46 PM 

This is amazing to me
if you type SMS on Cyrillic you pay more
This is merely disappointing
there is no Cyrillic keyboards on laptops and for computers in Serbia
 
Thanks for the update, it makes sense .
 
/marksv
 
 


From: Dusan Stojicevic   Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 08:20 To: Mark Svancarek (CELA)  Cc: ua-discuss at icann.org Subject: RE: [UA-discuss] Serbia Proposes Law Changes to Halt Cyrillic&rsquos Decline


 
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 &ldquoimportant&rdquo 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&rsquot 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&hellip Simply, situation is> there is no (big) demand. It&rsquos 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&hellip) you can find significant number of IDN domain names. 
Patrick F&aumlltstr&oumlm and me, we were talking in Tbilisi about the reasons behind that, during EuroDIG&rsquos 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 &ndash 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 &hellip etc). IDNs can be just added in brackets, but certainly not as a major topic&hellip 
People, they usually go down the line of lower resistance&hellip 
 
Cheers,
Dusan Stojicevic 
 
 


From: UA-discuss [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Mark Svancarek (CELA) via UA-discuss Sent: Friday, August 10, 2018 6:24 PM To: Universal Acceptance ua-discuss at icann.org> Subject: [UA-discuss] Serbia Proposes Law Changes to Halt Cyrillic&rsquos Decline


 
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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