<div dir="auto">Thank you for the information and update, Tapani!!<div dir="auto">All the best! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Warmest regards, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maureen Owusu-Addae </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 28, 2026, 3:23 AM Tapani Tarvainen <<a href="mailto:00001e7f5908374c-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu">00001e7f5908374c-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
<br>
The Latin Diacritics PDP working group had another meeting yesterday.<br>
<br>
Key topics:<br>
<br>
* A set of ASCII and corresponding LD TLD(s) must be applied for<br>
together as a set, not separately.<br>
<br>
* The same entity principle will generally apply for the 2nd level,<br>
although discussion on some borderline cases continues.<br>
<br>
* The definition of "diacritic", for the purposes of this PDP,<br>
will include both Unicode-decomposable and precomposed-only<br>
(of the form "small latin letter with ...") diacritics.<br>
<br>
The last is something I've been pushing for, and I'm happy that my<br>
proposal was accepted. Mainly it adds some 15 characters with hook,<br>
tail and stroke used by many African, Scandinavian, Slavic and some<br>
other languages.<br>
<br>
This was something of a compromise as I would have wanted to include<br>
also other characters that could've been treated similarly even though<br>
they are not diacritics in any sense, like æ and ŋ. But that would<br>
have required amending the charter and extra work as they would have<br>
to have been analyzed individually to determine which ASCII strings<br>
they'd be confusable with. Work for another PDP...<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Tapani Tarvainen<br>
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