Dear Latin GP members,
The Second-Level Reference Label Generation Rules (Reference LGRs) for Seven additional scripts (Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek,
Latin, Japanese, Korean, and Myanmar) and other updated Reference LGRs are being released for Public Comment at https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/additional-script-based-reference-label-generation-rules-and-related-updates-19-01-2023.
Reference LGRs help improve the transparency and consistency of the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) table review process and facilitate the registry operations of new gTLDs which
offer IDN registration in these languages and scripts. Input from relevant language and script user community is very important to finalize these Reference LGRs.
We’d like to draw you attention to review these
Reference LGRs, especially the ones listed in the table below.
|
Language/Script |
LGR for Review |
Update from previous version* |
New or Substantial Change |
|
Belarusian Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. Blocked variants have been added for homoglyphs of ASCII letters. These have no effect unless the LGR is used together with LDH labels in the same zone. |
Yes |
|
Bosnian (Latin) Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
|
Bulgarian Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. Blocked variants have been added for homoglyphs of ASCII letters. These have no effect unless the LGR is used together with LDH labels in the same zone. |
Yes |
|
Danish Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
|
English Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. Based on further review in connections with updates to the reference LGR for the French language, the addition of fallback variants between letters with diaeresis and their ASCII base letters
appears indicated. These variants are enabled here by default but are marked as “enabled” to allow registries to deactivate them if required. |
Yes |
|
Finnish Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
|
French Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. The U+00F1 (ñ) LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE has been changed from “extended-cp” to “included” by default. The fallback variants between French letters with diacritics and their ASCII base letters are included. These variants are enabled here by default but are marked as “enabled” to allow registries
to deactivate them if required. |
Yes |
|
German Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. Variant for U+00DF (ß) has been defined to the
Lain RZ-LGR. This fallback variant is enabled here by default but is marked as “enabled” to allow registries to deactivate it if required. |
Yes |
|
Hungarian Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
|
Icelandic Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
|
Italian Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
|
Latin Script |
Version 1 |
N/A (New) Compared to that source (Latin RZ-LGR), the repertoire has been further augmented with a code point sequence for the Catalan Ela Geminada: U+006C U+00B7
U+006C (l·l). As part of that sequence one additional Common script code point is available: U+00B7 (·).
There are two in-script sequences that do not add to the set of valid labels under this LGR but are defined for use in variants. |
Yes |
|
Latvian Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
|
Lithuanian Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
|
Norwegian Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
|
Polish Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
|
Portuguese Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
|
Spanish Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
|
Swedish Language |
Version 3 |
Unicode Version has been updated. |
No |
*The Unicode version of all Reference LGRs have been updated to version 11.0.0 to match the Maximal Starting Repertoire version 5 (MSR-5).
It will be highly appreciated if you could provide your feedback by Friday, 3 March 2023.
If we can be any of assistant for you to review these Reference LGRs, please don’t hesitate to let us know.
Best Regards,
Pitinan Kooarmornpatana
IDN Program, Senior Manager
ICANN