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<p>Hello everyone,</p>
<p>I exchanged a few messages with Lars earlier this year, and would
like to present below some points he raised that should be useful
both for the IGF next week and looking towards ICANN meeting C
next year, being tailored towards German stakeholders. In my view,
we can aim to always try gathering such regional insights moving
forward to optimize our engagement.</p>
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<p><b>Special characters:</b> Eszett (ß) and Umlaut (ü) have
fallback options by default:</p>
<ul>
<li>Eszett becomes "ss".</li>
<li>Capital Eszett (ẞ) has only recently been introduced
officially to the language, meaning that anything in capital
letters used to be written using "SS" even on the press.</li>
<li>Umlaut characters (ä, ö, ü) become "ae", "oe", "ue".<br>
</li>
</ul>
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<p> <b>gTLDs</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Fallback: the popular cityTLD for "Köln" is run under ".koeln"
and ".cologne" to avoid the Umlaut.</li>
<li>".berlin" is a popular gTLD and is in active use for varied
purposes, including local businesses.</li>
<li>Other relevant gTLDs: ".hamburg", ".bayern", ".ruhr", ".nrw"
and ".saarland".<br>
</li>
</ul>
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<p>Hopefully this can help us engage better. Safe journeys to all of
those traveling to the IGF!</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
</p>
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Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.markwd.website">www.markwd.website</a>]
In partnership with AR-TARC and the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES)</pre>
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