Colon & Semicolon missing from iPhone 8 iOS 11.2.1

Greetings,

I am using the Skype app from Apple store, to log into my account. In as such, this requires the colon inclusive of the full user ID formatted as "live:username". I have looked in both [123] levels as well as checked on numerous keys that a press and hold (similar to letters with special characters) providing the colon option. I am at a loss. Especially since, the first level [123] shows 2 different period/dot characters. Why wasn't one of those used for colon/semicolon? I will also reach out to Skype/Microsoft for solution as well.

I have not installed an additional keyboard - I currently have English QWERTY. Nor have I attempted speech to text via Siri to input the user ID. Although clipboard with cut-n-paste is also an option, this all seems to be much extra efforts when there is clearly a button available to use instead of having two with same character. Repurpose the extra dot (double space inputs a period automatically as well).

Any additional suggestions

Thanks so much to everyone in this support forum for honest feedback or personal anecdotes.

--Techology42