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<p class="MsoNormal">Hey Dusan,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for sharing this perspective. I really appreciate getting an insight into how other communities are impacted by these topics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope you’re doing well,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">--Rich<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Richard Merdinger<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of "Mark Svancarek (CELA) via UA-discuss" <ua-discuss@icann.org><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"Mark Svancarek (CELA)" <marksv@microsoft.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 12:01 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Dusan Stojicevic <dusan@dukes.in.rs><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"ua-discuss@icann.org" <ua-discuss@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [UA-discuss] Serbia Proposes Law Changes to Halt Cyrillic’s Decline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is amazing to me<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">if you type SMS on Cyrillic you pay more</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is merely disappointing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">there is no Cyrillic keyboards on laptops and for computers in Serbia</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the update, it makes sense.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/marksv<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Dusan Stojicevic <dusan@dukes.in.rs> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 15, 2018 08:20<br>
<b>To:</b> Mark Svancarek (CELA) <marksv@microsoft.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> 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"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear Mark, all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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.
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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><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">People, they usually go down the line of lower resistance…
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Cheers,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dusan Stojicevic </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SR-LATN-RS" style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> UA-discuss [<a href="mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org">mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Svancarek (CELA) via UA-discuss<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 10, 2018 6:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Universal Acceptance <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [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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