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Maybe this is a good thing but I wouldn't have an email address with accented characters (and my name contains two of them). It would be quite awkward if I gave

by leni536 12y ago

Maybe this is a good thing but I wouldn't have an email address with accented characters (and my name contains two of them). It would be quite awkward if I gave someone my address and he/she couldn't simply type it with his/her default keyboard configuration.

VikingCoder 12y ago
QR codes to the rescue!
- ori_b 12y ago
  Doesn't help if someone is dictating it to me.
  - VikingCoder 12y ago
    Um, there's a filled dot. Then an empty one. Then there's like three filled ones. No, four. Then another empty one...
greggman 12y ago
I agree with this. Also, many years ago when they started allowing unicode domain names several of my Japan friends thought Japan would switch over to unicode domain names. It's now been several years and I have yet to see a single Japanese website with a Japanese character domain name. (I'm sure someone will pull one up just now ;) The problem (one problem?) is legacy devices. At the time most phones and possibly even some browsers had limited input to URL fields in ascii only. The keyboard they'd show when you when to enter a URL didn't provide the input methods for non-ascii text. So, having a non-ascii domain would have only lost you customers. Or made it more confusing. As in do I go to mitsubishi.com or 三菱.com? (三菱.jp is registered but googling for site:三菱.jp brings up zero hits) I'm not saying I'm against non-ascii email names. I'm just suggesting it's not likely to change much anytime soon. Just a guess
devindotcom 12y ago
Right, that's a legit concern. How about an app that quickly loads up all the language keyboards in the OS and lets you pop into one temporarily for the purposes of typing one thing in notepad or just straight into the clipboard?
- hadoukenio 12y ago
  > How about an app that quickly loads up all the language That sounds convenient. /s
  - devindotcom 12y ago
    Not all at once... just retrieves them for searching and really quick usage. launch the app, type in "m....a....n.." and hit the mandarin option. Your new Chinese friend types in his email address and you pop it into a contact. No settings need to be changed or anything. Is that really such a weird idea?
    - hadoukenio 12y ago
      > Not all at once... just retrieves them for searching and really quick usage. launch the app, type in "m....a....n.." and hit the mandarin option And now you have two problems. Why would you be searching for mandarin which is the anglicised-ASCII translation for Guānhuà. More correctly, you should be searching for ㄍㄨㄢㄏㄨㄚ.
      - devindotcom 12y ago
        One would assume that if the OS is set to English, the keyboard options will be listed in English, and if the OS is set to ㄍㄨㄢㄏㄨㄚ, the keyboard options will be listed in ㄍㄨㄢㄏㄨㄚ. This isn't a problem at all if you know the name in your own language for the language you are seeking.

by leni536 12y ago

VikingCoder 12y ago

QR codes to the rescue!

ori_b 12y ago
Doesn't help if someone is dictating it to me.
- VikingCoder 12y ago
  Um, there's a filled dot. Then an empty one. Then there's like three filled ones. No, four. Then another empty one...

greggman 12y ago

I agree with this. Also, many years ago when they started allowing unicode domain names several of my Japan friends thought Japan would switch over to unicode domain names. It's now been several years and I have yet to see a single Japanese website with a Japanese character domain name. (I'm sure someone will pull one up just now ;) The problem (one problem?) is legacy devices. At the time most phones and possibly even some browsers had limited input to URL fields in ascii only. The keyboard they'd show when you when to enter a URL didn't provide the input methods for non-ascii text. So, having a non-ascii domain would have only lost you customers. Or made it more confusing. As in do I go to mitsubishi.com or 三菱.com? (三菱.jp is registered but googling for site:三菱.jp brings up zero hits) I'm not saying I'm against non-ascii email names. I'm just suggesting it's not likely to change much anytime soon. Just a guess

devindotcom 12y ago

Right, that's a legit concern. How about an app that quickly loads up all the language keyboards in the OS and lets you pop into one temporarily for the purposes of typing one thing in notepad or just straight into the clipboard?

hadoukenio 12y ago
> How about an app that quickly loads up all the language That sounds convenient. /s
- devindotcom 12y ago
  Not all at once... just retrieves them for searching and really quick usage. launch the app, type in "m....a....n.." and hit the mandarin option. Your new Chinese friend types in his email address and you pop it into a contact. No settings need to be changed or anything. Is that really such a weird idea?
  - hadoukenio 12y ago
    > Not all at once... just retrieves them for searching and really quick usage. launch the app, type in "m....a....n.." and hit the mandarin option And now you have two problems. Why would you be searching for mandarin which is the anglicised-ASCII translation for Guānhuà. More correctly, you should be searching for ㄍㄨㄢㄏㄨㄚ.
    - devindotcom 12y ago
      One would assume that if the OS is set to English, the keyboard options will be listed in English, and if the OS is set to ㄍㄨㄢㄏㄨㄚ, the keyboard options will be listed in ㄍㄨㄢㄏㄨㄚ. This isn't a problem at all if you know the name in your own language for the language you are seeking.