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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">When I enter a domain name such as icann.org, I just press nine keys in sequence, i, c and so on. Five keys for icann, then one for the dot, then three for org.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">When a Chinese user enters a Chinese domain in a similarly simple way, the result may be
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">星巴克。商</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"PingFang TC",sans-serif">标</span><span lang="EN-US">, while the correct result would be
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">星巴克</span><span lang="EN-US">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">商</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"PingFang TC",sans-serif">标</span><span lang="EN-US"> (note the different
dots). Entering the correct domain requires entering </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">星巴克</span><span lang="EN-US">, changing keyboard layout to get latin letters, entering the ASCII dot, changing keyboard layout back, then entering
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">商</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"PingFang TC",sans-serif">标</span><span lang="EN-US">. Bothersome. You will not be surprised to learn that forgetting to switch layout is a common mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’d like to know which other locales have a similar problem, and for that I want to ask a favour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There are many people here who use different keyboard input methods. If your keyboard input method has a similar problem, can you send me the dot and an example domain (which does not need to exist, something like example.yourtld
would do)? Offlist please. That is to arnt.gulbrandsen@icann.org.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If a keyboard method uses non-latin letters but includes the ASCII full stop, I’m interested in that too. Always heartening to know when something is not buggy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Arnt Gulbrandsen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">UA Technology Sr. Manager, ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">+32 492 374706<o:p></o:p></p>
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