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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Arnt,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anecdotally, I’ve heard similar issues with Armenian. For Cyrillic, the dot does not appear to be an issue, but the “@” character is for email addresses. A survey to the UA-discuss list might get you more responses.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dennis<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-EAI <ua-eai-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Arnt Gulbrandsen via UA-EAI <ua-eai@icann.org><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt.gulbrandsen@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 10:21 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"ua-tech@icann.org" <ua-tech@icann.org>, "ua-eai@icann.org" <ua-eai@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] [UA-EAI] A request concerning entering domain names<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993300">Caution:</span></strong><span style="color:#993300"> </span><span style="color:black">This email originated from outside the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless
you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When a Chinese user enters a Chinese domain in a similarly simple way, the result may be
<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">星巴克。商</span><span style="font-family:"PingFang TC",sans-serif">标</span>, while the correct result would be
<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">星巴克</span>.<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">商</span><span style="font-family:"PingFang TC",sans-serif">标</span> (note the different dots). Entering the correct domain requires entering
<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">星巴克</span>, changing keyboard layout to get latin letters, entering the ASCII dot, changing keyboard layout back, then entering
<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">商</span><span style="font-family:"PingFang TC",sans-serif">标</span>. Bothersome. You will not be surprised to learn that forgetting to switch layout is a common mistake.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Arnt Gulbrandsen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">UA Technology Sr. Manager, ICANN<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">+32 492 374706<o:p></o:p></p>
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