Internationalize your iPhone .com key

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.

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nzbullet

For a New Zealand or Australian Button Hack go here http://www.linka.co.nz/iphone_keyboard.php and you can change the .co.uk to either .co.nz or com.au

March 22 2008 at 8:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Scofield

I'd need .at (Austria). Maybe the next Update will solve this problem, as the iphone is available/supported in Austria since March 14th. (I own an ipod Touch though)

However, I think the much better use for the international keyboard lies in writing texts. Even though I speak German I do sometimes need to take some notes in English. Mostly single phrases. With the int. keyboard on, the spelling correction works way better for me now, as English phrases won't be automatically corrected into German or vice versa. Just hit the globe buttonâ€¦

March 22 2008 at 6:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bruce Funk

Problem is that it works only as long as your keyboard is switched.... so for me (as an expat) it's faster to just type .de than to "globe", "german", ".com", hold, select, and then change my keyboard back to english.
would be nice to have something in the prefs that lets you list all your favorite top level domains to be displayed when you hold down the .com key.

March 22 2008 at 5:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

amiga_tone

Your kidding, they forget .com.au?!?! WTF?

March 21 2008 at 10:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Seth Amott

They only include ones for countries they officially support. :-) However, I could use the Australian one, as I am in the good old USA, but frequent .au sites still. But yeah, I like... 30th the idea to add .net and .org, or even better, give us the option to add three ones you want, or even just change the "dafault" one to the one you use more often, ect. You know what I mean. However, I learned two things from this, I didn't know you could get accented characters, suddenly typing in spanish is much easier. :-)

March 21 2008 at 11:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

amiga_tone

I actually meant in regards to the iPod touch, yes we have the iPod Touch in Australia!

The OS for both I believe is the same now since 1.1.3(?) well at least I noticed the nav bar at the bottom of the Touch screen became the same as the iPhone at that point.

So regardless, we are still a supported region for Mac OS X mobile! ;-)

March 22 2008 at 6:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

hokorii

What I want to know is how do I get the Japanese keyboard on my 1.1.4 iphone. :/

March 21 2008 at 9:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

meeee

no way... french is shown here... roll eyes.

March 21 2008 at 7:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kamalesh Thakker

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. :))

March 21 2008 at 7:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

3 replies to Kamalesh Thakker's comment

Shervin

.ir
.co.uk
:D
nice one

March 21 2008 at 7:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

XIV

Another vote for a standard .net and .org.

A .qc.ca for Quebec in Canada would be great too

March 21 2008 at 6:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Victor

Need .mx, too.

March 21 2008 at 6:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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