<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div>I noticed chinese characters in Wolfgang's email address on the internet policy isoc email list, amongst other email addresses which were all of a sudden showing chinese characters in random places in an email address of people not from china. I just assumed the chinese government was hacking into the process somehow, is that an alternative explanation given the most recent U.S. Senate letter to ICANN citing 'new evidence' regarding systemic chinese influence throughout icann? Will all characters on the internet be chinese characters eventually and is the transition to universal chinese characters happening at a pace too slow to be noticed?<br /><br />Ron</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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Re: [UA-discuss] Arabic script email being displayed as Chinese <br>
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<td valign="top">I think your interpretation is correct.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The resulting addresses were<br clear="none">寰蒋娴嬭瘯@浜掕仈缃�涓浗<br clear="none">賲丕乇賰@乇爻賷賱.丕賱爻毓賵丿賷丞<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Both the Chinese email address and the Arabic address were converted, both to Chinese.<br clear="none"><div class="yqt5062025294" id="yqtfd89620"><br clear="none">-----Original Message-----<br clear="none">From: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org" href="javascript:return">ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a> [mailto:<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org" href="javascript:return">ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a>] On Behalf Of Andre Schappo<br clear="none">Sent: Monday, March 7, 2016 4:05 PM<br clear="none">To: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org"
href="javascript:return">UA-discuss@icann.org</a><br clear="none">Subject: [UA-discuss] Arabic script email being displayed as Chinese<br clear="none"><br clear="none">During the ICANN55 UA Sunday session, the use of EAI was demonstrated live. There was one or more instances where the Arabic email address was incorrectly being displayed as a string of Chinese characters.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Here is a possible explanation -<br clear="none"><br clear="none">So lets take the Arabic email being used which was مارك@رسيل.السعودية<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This email string in utf8 encoding is<br clear="none"><br clear="none">d9 85 d8 a7 d8 b1 d9 83 40 d8 b1 d8 b3 d9 8a d9 84 2e d8 a7 d9 84 d8 b3 d8 b9 d9 88 d8 af d9 8a d8 a9<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If this utf8 encoded email string is then incorrectly treated as GB18030 encoded we would get displayed <br clear="none"><br clear="none">賲丕乇賰@乇爻賷<br
clear="none"><br clear="none">During the live demo I did not have time to determine which Chinese characters were displayed. So, Mark, could you please check whether or not these are the Chinese characters that were displayed<br clear="none"><br clear="none">André Schappo<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></td>
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