[Ncsg-discuss] Latin Diacritics PDP progress

[Maureen Owusu-Addae]

Thank you for the information and update, Tapani!!
All the best!

Warmest regards,

Maureen Owusu-Addae

On Thu, May 28, 2026, 3:23 AM 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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