Dear colleagues,

I have some comments about the questions about variant mappings document. I’m sorry if some of them were addressed during the meeting.

· I’m guessing we may need a new definition of variant, as?l fā “send” and?? fà (Taiwanese Mandarin pronunciation fǎ “hair”) both TC variants of SC 发, for example, do not have “the same pronunciations and the same meanings” in all of the languages.

· I reckon that code points only have “independent” status/type in the Japanese table, but that labels should be generated using the merged LGR rules, not local table rules.

· In Japanese, 国 and ?? cannot be exchanged in most cases. However, there may be certain names e.g. ?o伊??屋/?o伊国屋 where either form is common. The company seems to prefer the former; people write the latter. I would be interested to know what people do when word-processing. My software suggests the new form first, but then the old form. I wonder what percentage of people type which form. Personally, I would always type the form the company or person concerned preferred, if possible. There is a lot in a name.

Regards,

Chris.

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Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel +44 20 7679 1599 (int 31599) www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon

From: chinesegp-bounces@icann.org [mailto:chinesegp-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Wang Wei
Sent: 22 October 2014 03:19
To: ChineseGP@icann.org
Subject: [ChineseGP] fortnightly meeting on 23rd Oct, Thursday

Dear all

         It’s been couple of weeks since the last fortnightly meeting.

         Tomorrow, I’d like to share my slides for CDN variant workshop in ICANN 51

         And also, I drafted a document to illustrate C, J and K’s understanding about the coordination principles. It seems there are still different views between us and some IP members.

         I will send the document to IP for their formal feedback after we discuss and reach a consensus.

         Meeting time: 3PM (Beijing time, UTC+8)

Regards

Wang Wei