[governance] Is really Bulgarian Cyrillic .бг (.bg) similar to other Latin ccTLDs?

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 03:31:59PM +0100, Louis Pouzin (well) (pouzin at well.com) wrote:

> Unless visually impaired, anyone should be able to tell *.бг* from *.br*
> see attachment.

I think that would depend on the font and what people are used to -
someone who's never seen Cyrillic could easily confuse бг with br,
thinking it's just an unusual font.
How big problem that would be in practice, I couldn't say without
some (empirical) research (has any such been made?).

> However, visually normal people can't tell *.lt *(Italy) from *.It*(Lithuania)

Hmm. I have worse than average eyesight, but I didn't think it's this bad,
for to me those are very distinct but opposite to what you say -
I thought .lt is Lithuania and .it Italy.
(Yes, I got the joke. But the point is that such distinctions
are easy if you're used to them, much harder otherwise.)

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen
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