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Understanding Character Variants



Scripts and Characters - Typing Different Languages

Internationalized domain names (IDN) are composed of local language character sets or scripts. Internet users around the world have adapted to input their language's scripts on computer keyboards.

  • Different scripts use different keyboards or a standard (Latin-alphabet) keyboard with a soft keyboard
  • Computer operating systems have Input Method Editors (IME) that facilitate the input of the scripts

View our tutorial that was developed to help explain how speakers of different languages input those languages on computer keyboards. The tutorial demonstrates Chinese, Japanese and Korean, but other languages follow similar principles.




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