<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Zuan Zhang and Tex.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I the Open Dot widely used in domain names as label separators?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">D</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 3/11/2017, at 3:05 PM, Peter Green <<a href="mailto:seekcommunications@hotmail.com" class="">seekcommunications@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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</p><p class="">This is Zuan Zhang from China.</p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">In Chinese, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">w</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">e use "。” rather than “.”
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">to end a sentence. T</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">his is common sense.</span><br class="">
</p><p class="">Everywhere, including in social media, as long as it is written in Chinese.</p><p class=""><br class="">
</p><p class="">Take the ICANN announcements released in Chinese as an example:</p><p class=""><br class="">
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</div><p class="">Hope this helps.</p>
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<b class="">发送时间:</b> 2017年11月3日 9:28<br class="">
<b class="">收件人:</b> 'Don Hollander'; 'Universal Acceptance'<br class="">
<b class="">主题:</b> Re: [UA-discuss] The Open Dot as a label delimiter in Chinese and Japanese</font>
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<div class="x_WordSection1"><p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D" class="">If you look at any site in Japanese, such as <a href="http://sony.jp" class="">sony.jp</a>, or japantimes
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http://members.japantimes.co.jp/sub/index_ja.html[members.japantimes.co.jp]</a>, et al, and look at articles or any area that has full sentences as opposed to labels or headlines, you will see open dots used alongside Japanese text and no ascii dots.</span></p><div class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D" class="">I also see open dots in Japanese tweets
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https://twitter.com/JN_Japanese[twitter.com]</a></span></p>
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<br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D" class="">So widespread would be an understatement. Is that what you were asking?</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D" class="">tex</span></p><div class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="x_MsoNormal"><a name="x__MailEndCompose" class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D" class=""> </span></a></p>
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<b class="">Sent:</b> Thursday, November 2, 2017 5:10 PM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b> Universal Acceptance<br class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b> [UA-discuss] The Open Dot as a label delimiter in Chinese and Japanese</span></p>
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