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<div dir="auto">It's up to applications. But comparisons with running text are misleading and confused, because domain names aren't running text. <br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On Nov 2, 2017, at 9:29 PM, Tex <<a href="mailto:textexin@xencraft.com" target="_blank">textexin@xencraft.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I also see open dots in Japanese tweets <a href="https://twitter.com/JN_Japanese">https://twitter.com/JN_Japanese</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Don Hollander<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 2, 2017 5:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> Universal Acceptance<br><b>Subject:</b> [UA-discuss] The Open Dot as a label delimiter in Chinese and Japanese
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<p class="MsoNormal">The UASG has in the past indicated that good practice is to treat the Open Dot as a label delimiter, just like the traditional full-stop.
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