Hello,

2009/12/30 Tapani Tarvainen <[log in to unmask]>

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:48:31AM +0900, Rafik Dammak ([log in to unmask])
> Hello,

> I see also the same "keyboard
> polemic" as people cannot type those idn (why do you want to access to
> website with idn which it means that content is probably in language that
> you don't speak?).

I don't know about you, but I do that quite often, even
sites in languages like Japanese which I don't know at all,
especially photo sites where pictures are the main thing,
and also for product information: there's often enough
brand names and the like to give an idea if it's worth
trying a machine translator on it.

yes you can try to access, maybe you can do that basically from a search engine. here in japan for some reasons, people access to websites in their mobile not by typing the url but by searching in yahoo BB! service even for accessing to google :)

I guess that we can have many cases like that.

Another obvious (and probably more common) case is when you
travel and temporarily want to use a foreign-language keyboard
to access a website in your language.

I have japanese keyboard and sometimes I need to type in arabic so I use either a virtual keyboard (present in win too and in as much as added to the os) or transliteration service.

in any new situation a new usage will appear, I am pretty sure that people will find workaroud for those issues.

I'm not saying this is a heavy argument against IDNs,
usually you get by following links or doing cut'n'paste,
but it is a real issue. (A standard and intuitive way of
entering all Unicode characters on all keyboard would be
something... but it's probably impossible.)

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Tapani Tarvainen

Rafik