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<div>I think that your decribed senario is the common senario Chinese users commonly encounter.</div><div><br></div><div>Another method is to copy and paste it.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, many Chinese input methods have Associative input method. You can only input some initial letters and get the whole Chinese characters.</div><div>to input 星巴克, you just need to input xbk.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:_Foxmail.1@915f8298-d1e1-51a2-febd-c9b4d682cecc" border="0"></div><div> </div>
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<div><span>Jiankang Yao</span></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: inherit;"><div> </div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><div style="PADDING-RIGHT: 8px; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; FONT-SIZE: 12px;FONT-FAMILY:tahoma;COLOR:#000000; BACKGROUND: #efefef; PADDING-BOTTOM: 8px; PADDING-TOP: 8px"><div><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:ua-eai@icann.org">Arnt Gulbrandsen via UA-EAI</a></div><div><b>Date:</b> 2023-09-19 22:21</div><div><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ua-tech@icann.org">ua-tech@icann.org</a>; <a href="mailto:ua-eai@icann.org">ua-eai@icann.org</a></div><div><b>Subject:</b> [UA-EAI] A request concerning entering domain names</div></div></div><div><div class="FoxDiv20230925140329229158">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><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" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Arnt Gulbrandsen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">UA Technology Sr. Manager, ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">+32 492 374706<o:p></o:p></p>
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