Internationalize your iPhone .com key
Posted Mar 21st 2008 3:30PM by Erica Sadun
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
Today Mac OS X hints offers an easily overlooked
internationalization hint. You're probably well aware of the trick where you hold down an iPhone button on the keyboard to view accented variations on the letter being tapped. What you might not have know about was the regional domains. In settings, choose General > Keyboards and enable some of those international keyboards.
Next go to Safari and start to enter a new URL. Tap the globe to switch the active keyboard from US English to some other nationality. (French is shown here.) Finally, tap and hold the .com button. After a second, a regionalized version of .com appears just to the left of the default.
[via TrumpetG]
Tags: Internationalization
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
3-21-2008 @ 3:35PM
Yazdgerd said...
Need .ir
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3-21-2008 @ 3:50PM
Steven said...
I wish there was a .net one, without changing the language....for emails
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3-21-2008 @ 3:56PM
matthew said...
I'd like a .edu too, since I work for a University and often go to .edu sites.
3-22-2008 @ 1:29PM
J. said...
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Let your voice be heard!!
3-21-2008 @ 4:01PM
Piotr Malecki said...
Apple should definitively add .net, .org and maybe .edu as standard ones that don't require using a different keyboard set.
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3-21-2008 @ 4:13PM
David said...
Wow, that's really cool! I didn't know you could do that. And I agree, add .net and .org.
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3-21-2008 @ 4:17PM
DrWho said...
Another vote for .net .org et al, seems like an oversight somehow.
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3-21-2008 @ 4:38PM
Atariboy said...
Another great tip, tuaw is on form today :)
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3-21-2008 @ 5:05PM
The General said...
I've said they needed .com, .net and .org exactly like this since 1.0.0. I wish they'd just do it ...
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3-21-2008 @ 5:29PM
Karl Bundy said...
Shame that this tip does not change to .co.uk when you pick the UK keyboard, just good old .com
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3-21-2008 @ 7:18PM
Doomed Planet said...
It works for my UK keyboard, keep holding it and .co.uk does appear.
3-22-2008 @ 12:11PM
Paul said...
It does offer .co.uk, you just need to make sure you have the "English (UK)" keyboard selected in Settings->General->Keyboard->International Keyboards. Then when you have the keyboard up and ready to type something, hit the little globe icon to switch to the UK keyboard and then when you hold down the .com button for a few seconds you will get .co.uk as an option.
3-21-2008 @ 6:18PM
Victor said...
Need .mx, too.
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3-21-2008 @ 6:45PM
oZone said...
stfu mexican, lol. gtfo.
3-22-2008 @ 3:56PM
master.xtor said...
I agree, we get the general .es (Spain)
3-21-2008 @ 6:54PM
XIV said...
Another vote for a standard .net and .org.
A .qc.ca for Quebec in Canada would be great too
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3-21-2008 @ 7:33PM
Shervin said...
.ir
.co.uk
:D
nice one
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3-21-2008 @ 7:41PM
KTswami said...
Nice international domain tip, and good comments.
The v2.0 Update HAS to have email address auto-fill and the .NET, .ORG, .EDU buttons, because having the .COM button is keeping users very stupid.
Does anyone type in .COM on the desktop any more?? Or WWW...? Having a .COM button implies that typing WWW into your browser is still necessary. Only the geniuses at Microsoft, didn't allow IE to open a website without WWW or .COM and issue . That has contaminated billions of internet users before they discovered Opera, Safari, FF, etc...and they keep doing it.
When I was giving some iPhone tips to a couple friends, they were both typing in WWW in mSafari...! What a disaster.
Still, good tip. :))
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3-21-2008 @ 11:27PM
Allister said...
Not typing .com in a browser is a *shortcut*. The DNS still has .com and so it should. Just because you choose to use a browser (Mobile Safari) that doesn't offer the same shortcuts as you are used to doesn't make it lame.
As for email address auto-complete - it's already there. It completes from your address book with *known* addresses. It just doesn't guess.
3-22-2008 @ 3:31PM
KTswami said...
Apologies, Allister...thx for clarifying on the email address. I imprecisely meant to say "email address fill-in for registration fields", so typing in my own email address 25x to re-register to news sites and others on my iPhone was a headache. I think I saw a 1Password iPhone but it seems a little insecure to me.
On the .COM item, I don't know what you're saying about *shortcuts* and TLDs, so please help me. If we type into any modern browser like Opera the last 8-10 years, or Safari/FF more recently, "tuaw" (without quotes), please tell us what happens in your browser (desktop or mobile).
This will be amusing.