[Ncsg-discuss] Latin Diacritics PDP progress

[Frank Anati]

Dear Tapani,
Thanks for the update.

Best regards,

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On Thu, 28 May 2026, 9:56 am Adebunmi Akinbo, <
00001e2535559870-dmarc-request at listserv.syr.edu> wrote:

> Dear Tapani,
> Thanks for the inclusion of African Languages with strokes.
> Great update.
> - AAA.
>
> On Thu, 28 May 2026 at 08:23, Tapani Tarvainen <
> 00001e7f5908374c-dmarc-request at listserv.syr.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> The Latin Diacritics PDP working group had another meeting yesterday.
>>
>> Key topics:
>>
>> * A set of ASCII and corresponding LD TLD(s) must be applied for
>>   together as a set, not separately.
>>
>> * The same entity principle will generally apply for the 2nd level,
>>   although discussion on some borderline cases continues.
>>
>> * The definition of "diacritic", for the purposes of this PDP,
>>   will include both Unicode-decomposable and precomposed-only
>>   (of the form "small latin letter with ...") diacritics.
>>
>> The last is something I've been pushing for, and I'm happy that my
>> proposal was accepted. Mainly it adds some 15 characters with hook,
>> tail and stroke used by many African, Scandinavian, Slavic and some
>> other languages.
>>
>> This was something of a compromise as I would have wanted to include
>> also other characters that could've been treated similarly even though
>> they are not diacritics in any sense, like æ and ŋ. But that would
>> have required amending the charter and extra work as they would have
>> to have been analyzed individually to determine which ASCII strings
>> they'd be confusable with. Work for another PDP...
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> --
>> Tapani Tarvainen
>>
>
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