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<p class="MsoNormal">I wonder the same – if Cyrillic script is a cultural priority, you have to fix all the other impediments to it in daily life, and that costs money and cycles. Do they have the dedication, or are these just empty words?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Roberto Gaetano <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 15, 2018 10:30<br>
<b>To:</b> Dusan Stojicevic <dusan@dukes.in.rs><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Mark Svancarek (CELA) <marksv@microsoft.com>; Universal Acceptance <ua-discuss@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [UA-discuss] Serbia Proposes Law Changes to Halt Cyrillic’s Decline<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just to add to your status report on IDNs, may I say that also for IDN gTLDs the registration numbers are a rounding error and there is no marketing effort.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Actually, I should not generalise but speak only for my Registry, that is Public Interest Registry.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But I have a question. Do you think that this new approach from the Serbian Government could change things? If they really want to favour the use of Cyrillic they must fix the problem of the keyboards and SMS fees. This, in the medium term,
could change also the attitude of users about IDN, and force the operators to support IDNs. Or is it a dream?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Given the success of the meeting in Tallinn I am having some exchange of emails with Patrik and John to build on that at the next EuroDIG.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Incidentally, there will be a couple of sessions about IDN at APTLD74 in September, and given the number of people not using latin script there might be some interesting discussions on IDN.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Roberto<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 15.08.2018, at 17:20, Dusan Stojicevic <<a href="mailto:dusan@dukes.in.rs">dusan@dukes.in.rs</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear Mark, all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Sorry for a delay in reacting, this news hits me on vacation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">As I am from Serbia, I can say that this topic reach domestic headlines because of the summer time with lack of more “important” news. Still, it brings Cyrillic script into focus and highlighted some problems
considering usage of Cyrillic in one small country.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">There is no mentioning of IDNs, because of several reasons. Firstly, Serbian registry, for a long time, doesn’t want to promote national IDN TLD, and the situation is more-less equal in all small non-Latin countries
with IDN TLD. The number of domain names in IDNs is like a statistical error and it brings no business to registries, registrars… Simply, situation is> there is no (big) demand. It’s the same in countries which use Latin script with diacritics, number of IDNs
on SLD is small.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Only in big non-Latin countries (China, Russia, India…) you can find significant number of IDN domain names.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Patrick Fältström and me, we were talking in Tbilisi about the reasons behind that, during EuroDIG’s IDN session. I can say that the problem is not pure technical, but rather a mix: lack of usage of non-Latin
script in real life (mentioned in article, Serbs knows Latin, and we use this script like our own, and situation is similar in small non-Latin countries – Georgia, Armenia, name it), and lack of natural and comfortable usage of those scripts on computers (f.e.
there is no Cyrillic keyboards on laptops and for computers in Serbia; if you type SMS on Cyrillic you pay more; default settings on new mobile devices is Latin script for all apps, and you get mix of scripts if you change to non-Latin; … etc). IDNs can be
just added in brackets, but certainly not as a major topic…<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">People, they usually go down the line of lower resistance…<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Cheers,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dusan Stojicevic<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>UA-discuss [<a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org">mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Mark
Svancarek (CELA) via UA-discuss<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, August 10, 2018 6:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Universal Acceptance <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[UA-discuss] Serbia Proposes Law Changes to Halt Cyrillic’s Decline<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">No mention if IDNs, though.<o:p></o:p></p>
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