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Just did a search - <a href="https://codepoints.net/search?q=full+stop" class="">https://codepoints.net/search?q=full+stop</a> and found several full stops characters used in different scripts.
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<div class="">A few years a go I did raise the issue for URLs of replacing ／ U+FF0F fullwidth solidus with / Solidus U+002F</div>
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<div class="">i18n is a well established numeronym. I propose a new numeronym: i15d meaning internationalized. Basically because I am getting fed up with typing internationalised😀<br class="">
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<div class="">André Schappo</div>
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<div class="">On 7 Nov 2017, at 00:26, Mark Svancarek via UA-discuss <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org" class="">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Haha, I we added that in after discussing open dot for so long<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji', sans-serif; color: windowtext;" class="">😉</span><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>definitely
supports your conclusion that the list might grow.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class=""><i class="">(Interesting, I just noticed that UASG007 also recommends treating the Arabic full stop character “<span dir="RTL" class=""></span><span dir="RTL" class=""></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" class=""><span dir="RTL" class=""></span><span dir="RTL" class=""></span>۔</span><span dir="LTR" class=""></span><span dir="LTR" class=""></span><span dir="LTR" class=""></span><span dir="LTR" class=""></span>”
(U+06D4) as a label separator. UTS #46 and RFC5885 don't mention that.)<o:p class=""></o:p></i></p>
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<b class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jim DeLaHunt [<a href="mailto:jfrom.uasg@jdlh.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">mailto:jfrom.uasg@jdlh.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
<b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, November 6, 2017 4:24 PM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mark Svancarek <<a href="mailto:marksv@microsoft.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">marksv@microsoft.com</a>>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">ua-discuss@icann.org</a><br class="">
<b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Simon Cousins <<a href="mailto:simon@allegravita.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">simon@allegravita.com</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [UA-discuss] The Open Dot as a label delimiter in Chinese and Japanese<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<p class="">Mark:<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<p class="">Thank you for these citations. I will make a note of them.<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<p class="">So,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rfc-editor.org%2Frfc%2Frfc5895.txt&data=02%7C01%7Cmarksv%40microsoft.com%7C7f16bcc27c0a4257dd5008d52575d27b%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636456110338458307&sdata=3Hr0mMmmxpgY1tIdPefQxToYwhRifWwfiRchY8TCIAY%3D&reserved=0" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">RFC5895
"Mapping Characters for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) 2008"</a>, section 2 "The General Procedure", says,<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<p class="">4. If an implementation of this mapping is also performing the step of separation of the parts of a domain name into labels by using the FULL STOP character (U+002E), the IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP character (U+3002) can be mapped to the FULL STOP before
label separation occurs. There are other characters that are used as "full stops" that one could consider mapping as label separators, but their use as such has not been investigated thoroughly. This step was chosen because some input mechanisms do not allow
the user to easily enter proper label separators. Only the IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP character (U+3002) is added in this mapping because the authors have not fully investigated the applicability of other characters and the environments where they should and should
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<p class="">And<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unicode.org%2Freports%2Ftr46%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cmarksv%40microsoft.com%7C7f16bcc27c0a4257dd5008d52575d27b%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636456110338458307&sdata=G8ovQyvvZLu9xbGiS%2FGx5qJWA%2BcPT0uXpwu51WTnJgs%3D&reserved=0" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">UTS
#46 "Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing"</a>, section 2.3 "Notation", says,<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<p class="">In this document, a label is a substring of a domain name. That substring is bounded on both sides by either the start or the end of the string, or any of the following characters, called label-separators:<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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U+002E ( . ) FULL STOP<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
U+FF0E (<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS Gothic';" class="">．</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) FULLWIDTH FULL STOP<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
U+3002 (<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS Gothic';" class="">。</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
U+FF61 (<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: 'MS Gothic';" class="">｡</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) HALFWIDTH IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="">From my point of view as a UASG explainer, this is good an sufficient grounding for a recommendation that apps treat U+3002 as a label separator. I would go further and warn people that this list might grow; that U+FF0E and U+FF61 may be on their
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<p class="">It would good to have a footnote somewhere linking our recommendation to those documents. I see UASG007 cites RFC5895 in general (I don't see a citation to UTS #46 in UASG007). Actually, this probably belongs more in a wiki somewhere, a list of
the things UASG recommends and why we recommend them. This will help us as we bring more UA explainers up to speed.<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<p class="">(Interesting, I just noticed that UASG007 also recommends treating the Arabic full stop character “<span dir="RTL" class=""></span><span dir="RTL" class=""></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" class=""><span dir="RTL" class=""></span><span dir="RTL" class=""></span>۔</span><span dir="LTR" class=""></span><span dir="LTR" class=""></span><span dir="LTR" class=""></span><span dir="LTR" class=""></span>”
(U+06D4) as a label separator. UTS #46 and RFC5885 don't mention that.)<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<p class="">Thank you for the citations, Mark. Best regards,<br class="">
—Jim DeLaHunt, Vancouver, Canada<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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On 2017-11-06 15:42, Mark Svancarek wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Correction, UTS#46<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u class="">and</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RFC5895</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'Simon Cousins'<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:simon@allegravita.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><simon@allegravita.com></a>; Jim DeLaHunt<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:jfrom.uasg@jdlh.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><jfrom.uasg@jdlh.com></a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">ua-discuss@icann.org</a><br class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: [UA-discuss] The Open Dot as a label delimiter in Chinese and Japanese</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;" class="">I advocated open dot equivalency based on UTS#46 when writing UASG007.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jim DeLaHunt <<a href="mailto:jfrom.uasg@jdlh.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">jfrom.uasg@jdlh.com</a>>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">ua-discuss@icann.org</a><br class="">
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<span style="color: windowtext;" class="">When typing in Chinese using any (probably all) of the common text input methods, hitting the period key on a standard keyboard will always insert an open dot.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;" class="">I have two browsers installed on this Windows 10 PC, Chrome and Edge. Both, when typing Chinese into the browser URL bar, insert an ascii dot when the period key is hit. I’d assume just about all contemporary browsers
would do this. It’d be crazy annoying to the user, otherwise.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<b class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On
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<b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, November 3, 2017 4:17 PM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">ua-discuss@icann.org</a><br class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [UA-discuss] The Open Dot as a label delimiter in Chinese and Japanese</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<p class="">Don:<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<p class="">> Does anyone have reference or even perception to how widely used the Open Dot is in Chinese, Japanese and/or other script?<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<p class="">Sure. Starting references: <<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FChinese_punctuation%23Punctuation_marks&data=02%7C01%7Cmarksv%40microsoft.com%7C8d419c38ce284eb2e43108d522f8c30f%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636453374225236452&sdata=ZFgnt3TdVzU1W80MyIs%2B6tzai2ZUAxfsr2%2FjMFArn54%3D&reserved=0" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_punctuation#Punctuation_marks</a>>,
<<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJapanese_punctuation%23Full_stop&data=02%7C01%7Cmarksv%40microsoft.com%7C8d419c38ce284eb2e43108d522f8c30f%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636453374225236452&sdata=yPIWa2HFbh4iltGvScYIEyhee%2FBjESGwSRJ3YfcZYqo%3D&reserved=0" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_punctuation#Full_stop</a>>.<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<p class="">In my experience developing publishing software and fonts for high-end Japanese typography, I can confirm that U+3002 [<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: DengXian;" class="">。</span>] is routine in Japanese language text.<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<p class="">In English language orthography, the U+002E FULL STOP [.] is used as a delimiter between fields of structured data, as well as a sentence ending punctuation. Consider a phone number like 212.555.1212, or a date like 3.11.17 . I think it is clearer
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<p class="">> UASG004 states “We expect software to transform the ‘open dot’ to a standard ASCII dot “.”, thus making use of the already registered domain name.”<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<p class="">Do we know what the source is for this expectation? Did it come from perspectives informed about Chinese and Japanese culture? Did this perspective show that U+3002 [<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: DengXian;" class="">。</span>] would be
preferred as a delimiter between domain name labels, over U+002E [.] or other punctuation? Or did we at UASG make a guess at the Chinese and Japanese perspective?<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<p class="">If we are not confident that U+3002 [<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: DengXian;" class="">。</span>] is preferred as a delimiter by people in those cultures, I think UASG should consider very carefully before advocating its use.<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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The ideographic full stop (U+3002 [<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: DengXian;" class="">。</span>]) is used in languages such as Chinese or Japanese to mark the end of a sentence. UASG004 states “We expect software to transform the ‘open dot’ to a standard
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