As a follow up to yesterdays TC call, I did some
quick research on international
keyboards and how the reserved set of
XRI characters is entered. Most of the Western European and Asian keyboards allow the
entry of all of the reserved URI/XRI characters. Sometimes it can be a bit
awkward (@ = AltGr-q on the German keyboard) but nothing that would be out of
the ordinary. For some of the
non-Latin alphabet keyboards (Cyrillic, Hindi and others) the entry of
almost any of the reserved characters is hard at best (alt followed by the hex
character value).
I
think that what is proposed in the
specification would not add any additional burden to individual from
throughout the world, than what is already in place for the entry or
URLs and email addresses.
For those that are interested in all the keyboard
layouts supported by Windows:
John Veizades...
Visa International