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Originally Posted by touchring You can enable Chinese in IME (choose Quanyin), and then you can type Chinese by using Alt-Shift to switch between the languages. E.g. To key in America， type 'meiguo' in pinyin and it will appear in the Chinese character.
I just tried Firefox, even without the .com entered, it will still resolve back to the .com automatically.
I think IDN will kick off only after 5 years in China (XP updates need license verification and probably 80% of PCs use pirated Windows). |
In that case they will all have Vista about a week after it is launched.
There are also a couple of serious points that need to be made here.
The Chinese have a unfied writing system. Chinese Glyphs can be understood not only by Mandarin speakers but also by by the speakers of hundreds of other languages and dialects within China, and also often have meaning in Japanese which is not from the same language family at all. Pinyin on the other hand is language specific so can only really be understood by Mandarin speakers.
We entered the IDN market after realizing that language skills are not essential for the purposes of domain speculation. All you need to be able to do is identifiy the characters you need and register them. We do not have any real language skills either in Chinese, or indeed any of the other languages that we have invested, including Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Telugu or Thai. When we started out most of speculation was based either purely on translations from online dictionaries. Only in Chinese and Japanese did we even have Google Scores. Now Overture Results are available for many of these languages, but we have also used Yandex.com for Russian and 3721.com for Chinese amongst other sources. More recently
www.wikipedia.org has been an invaluable supply of local character keywords for cities and other important terms that are not generally in the dictionary. Because we were a long way ahead of the curve in many instances, we were working on the basis of very limited imformation, but were able to register very common terms including many of the Characters that on the Wubi keyboard as well as Chinese Cities and Provinces. We have sold most of the Chinese cities that we had. We did, however, make quite a few mistakes and registered some rubbish, but at $8 a throw we felt that the risk of registering some rubbish was acceptable!
We have used Pinyin, in as much as we have taken transliterations from western news articles to help identify terms in Chinese Characters.
Best Regards
Dave Wrixon