We are glad to be able to benefit from your expertise, Bridget. Do refer to Tapani's answer about strings, and let me complement that this is a term that in ICANN can be very roughly translated to "name". A string may occur in the TLD part, which is the scope of this working group, or in the domain name part, which is something that is already handled in the current environment, where you can register www.hêe.wiki and www.hee.wiki just fine (where "Hêe" is the indigenous South American guaraní word for "yes"). Our big concern is, when the next round of new TLDs happens, will and interested party ve able to apply for both ".hêe" and ".hee"? Hope this helps a bit. On March 26, 2025 4:24:33 PM UTC, Bridget Chase via Gnso-latin-diacritics <gnso-latin-diacritics@icann.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Please excuse my ignorance here, as my expertise lies in Indigenous writing systems and I am still getting my head wrapped around the contexts of GNSO and TLDs. When you say “maximum of two strings”, are you referencing a multi-codepoint character – something like:
c̓ (\u0063\u0313) ?
If so, just for reference, there are many situations in Indigenous languages in North America where a character is made up of 3 codepoints, a base character + 2 diacritics. A couple of examples of this:
x̣ʷ (\u0078\u0323\u02B7) ų̄́ (\u0173\u0304\u0301)
There are also examples of using precomposed characters with additional diacritic markers:
č̓ (\u010D\u0313)
which also may have possible identical decomposed forms:
č̓ (\u0063\u030C\u0313)
Not sure if this is relevant to this particular conversation, so my apologies if I’m out of scope for what folks are discussing here. Regardless, I just thought I’d flag this as something to note for our conversations moving forward!
Cheers,
Bridget Chase (they/them) Language Technologist
Phone: (250) 718-8937 Website: bchasemadethis.com<http://bchasemadethis.com/>
From: Bill Jouris via Gnso-latin-diacritics <gnso-latin-diacritics@icann.org> Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM To: gnso-latin-diacritics@icann.org <gnso-latin-diacritics@icann.org> Subject: [Gnso-latin-diacritics] Re: Scope: only two strings? Hi Tapani,
I don't recall anything in our charter which would limit us to pairs. But if there is, it seems like something we should ask the GNSO Council to change. Because, as you say, it seems an artificial and counterproductive limitation.
Bill Jouris
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM, Tapani Tarvainen via Gnso-latin-diacritics <gnso-latin-diacritics@icann.org> wrote: Dear all,
Many questions about our scope were made clear in the call, but not all. Notably, the limitation to a maximum of two strings was implied (see slide 21) but not explicitly decided as far as I could tell.
It sounds like a strange limitation to me, given that there are cases where more than two words, even proper names, differ only in having different diacritics. My earlier examples included ø which was declared out of scope, but there're similar cases with "real" diacritics, e.g., Sjoberg, Sjöberg and Sjóberg.
Can we consider cases where someone applies for three or more such at the same time, or where one already has two of them and applies for a third one &c?
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