[UA-discuss] Armenia

[Lianna Galstyan]

Hi all,

Thanks, Roberto for your inquiry about the situation in Armenia. We hold 
a press conference lately, on the Day of using Armenian scripts in 
Internet, and talk about the issue of period mark.

The confusion is not about how many dots should be used, which is the 
Armenian colon or period, but the fact that the dot in the Armenian 
script in Unicode is different from that of the dot in the Latin script. 
So that when someone puts the name of the domain name and then needs to 
add ․հայ (TLD extension), if this dot is written in Armenian script 
(this non-standard dot is a default dot in Armenian keyboard), it's 
considered by servers to be an unknown symbol and the domain name 
doesn't resolve and show the exact address. This means, that the user 
should change the keyboard to the Latin, put the dot, then change the 
keyboard again to write in Armenian. And the confusion is that NOT 
everyone knows about that problem, which doesn't support the 
popularization of our IDN TLD.

So, to your question about how big is the impact, I'd say it's very big. 
It's a tremendous problem for the end user and it's a serious problem 
for the IDN TLD.

Best,
Lianna

On 12/02/2019 13:16, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> Hi all
> Maybe it could be interesting to hear if Lianna has something to add 
> to it?
> I am curious to understand how much big is the impact of this fact in 
> Armenia.
> Cheers,
> Roberto
>
>
>> On 11.02.2019, at 23:47, Dusan Stojicevic <dusan at dukes.in.rs 
>> <mailto:dusan at dukes.in.rs>> wrote:
>>
>> http://domainincite.com/23908-right-of-the-colonH-idn-getting-killed-over-dot-confusion 
>> <http://domainincite.com/23908-right-of-the-colon-idn-getting-killed-over-dot-confusion> 
>>
>>
>> @MarkS
>>
>> Dusan
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-discuss/attachments/20190212/04e11097/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: lianna.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 4 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-discuss/attachments/20190212/04e11097/lianna.vcf>