[UA-discuss] Armenia

[Andre Schappo]

Initially I looked in the Armenian Unicode block U+0530-058F and could not find an Armenian dot. I then examined ․հայ and determined that the Armenian dot used is U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER from the General Punctuation block.

Curiously, the 2 Armenian virtual keyboards on my OSX produce the standard U+002E and not U+2024 when the dot key is clicked. Additionally, the online Armenian virtual keyboard in google translate produces the standard U+002E and not U+2024.

André Schappo

On 12 Feb 2019, at 10:19, Lianna Galstyan <lianna at isoc.am<mailto:lianna at isoc.am>> wrote:

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:

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