International .com keyboard hack: NZ and beyond

By Erica Sadun

I recently posted about internationalizing your iPhone's .com key. TUAW reader nzbullet directed me to this New Zealand/Australia button hack. It works like this: you copy the UK keyboard folder, rename it to a new country and then swap the .co.uk for a new extension.

Unfortunately, you seem to be limited to switching existing keyboard styles to new text–you can't add more characters. This means that the 6 characters of the UK keyboard (.co.uk) can morph to com.au (6 characters) but not to .com.au. (7 characters)

I thought it was a pretty nifty workaround and thought I'd share.

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