Well, Bill, I have not been active with the panel but I have the feeling that including the multiple character combination would likely open the typical can of worms.

I can remember that, when working in software development in an European institution, I had the problem of how to deal with “LL” that in the Spanish alphabet is a separate character from “L”+”L”… This created, for instance, a big issue in alphabetical order of last names because “Llorente” comes after “Lopez” in Spain - but not in other European countries.
However, that was 30+ years ago, maybe now there’s less push to enforce local rules and a common European approach has become the practice, if not the rule.

Incidentally, thanks to Gopal for the link to the jakubmarian.com web site, I browsed it a bit around and there are some very good information not just about alphabets - and therefore relevant for UA - but also on European languages themselves - and therefore useful for a better understanding on multilingualism.

Cheers,
Roberto


On 29.01.2026, at 06:54, Bill Jouris via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:

Hi Gopal, 

I'm aware of the use of letter combinations to substitute for diacritics when the keyboard doesn't allow their use.  Unfortunately, the Latin Generation Panel decided that those combinations could not be considered when we were working on the original LGR.  And thus the Diacritics Working Group didn't consider them either. 

Just a little bit of history FYI. 

Bill Jouris 


On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 4:34 PM, gopal via CPWG
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