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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Dear Qi Chao,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Thank you for your email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">I’m hoping it will be refining, rather than redefining, the definition of “variant”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Accepting the concept of universal variant (e.g. TC and SC) and lexical variant (e.g.
</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun">紀伊國屋</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">/</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun">紀伊国屋</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">)
 may be easier than having to add the new type/status of Independent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Whatever we do, it must not be possible for different applicants to apply for</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun">紀伊國屋</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">
 and </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun">紀伊国屋</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">I think it’s possible for a panel not to define variants in its table, to accept that variant mappings for each character are the same as other languages/panels and
 for variants to be decided at the LGR level. Cases like the </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun">紀伊國屋</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">/</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun">紀伊国屋</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">case
 would thus be solved (recognized as variants of the same lable) at the LGR level , even though
</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun">國</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif"> and
</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun">国</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif"> are not defined as variants in the Japanese table.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Chris.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel &#43;44 20 7679 1599 (int
 31599) <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon</span></a>
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</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:SimSun">齐超</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> [mailto:qichao@cnnic.cn]
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<b>Sent:</b> 24 October 2014 04:07<br>
<b>To:</b> Dillon, Chris; ChineseGP@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:SimSun">回复</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: [ChineseGP] FW: fortnightly meeting on 23rd Oct, Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:navy">Dear Chris,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:navy">&nbsp; Thank you for your comments. I give some technical comments below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:navy">1. As you and Prof.Zhang have suggested, it might be time to redefine 'variant' for CGP/JGP in order to make a&nbsp;comprehensive rule for 'variant mapping'&nbsp;.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:navy">2. P2.2 is designed for code points, not for&nbsp;labels with mixed code points , and only two types - 'allocatable'/'blocked' - are defined for&nbsp;variant
 code points now. So&nbsp;'Independent'&nbsp;, as a new type, need to be accepted by LGR ?(to be confirmed)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:navy">3. From the example of
</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;MS Mincho&quot;;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">紀伊國屋</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:navy">/</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;MS Mincho&quot;;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">紀伊国屋</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">,
</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">there supposed to&nbsp;be also some relationship like 'variant' in new form and old form(</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">
</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;MS Mincho&quot;;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">国</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">&nbsp;/
</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;MS Mincho&quot;;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">國</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">) , which may not be recognized by JGP. I wonder how to handle the
 conflict if&nbsp;</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;MS Mincho&quot;;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">紀伊國屋</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">/</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;MS Mincho&quot;;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">紀伊国屋</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:navy;mso-fareast-language:JA">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:navy">are
 applied as tld&nbsp;by different applicants, and&nbsp;the problem is better&nbsp;handled by LGR, not by manual&nbsp;recognition.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:navy">Regards,</span><span style="color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:navy">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Qi Chao<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="ZH-CN">齐超</span></span><i><span style="font-family:&quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;,sans-serif;color:#969696"> via foxmail</span></i><span style="font-family:SimSun;color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">I have some comments about the
<i>questions about variant mappings</i> document. I’m sorry if some of them were addressed during the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">I’m guessing we may need a new definition of variant, as</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">發</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">fā</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"> “send” and</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black">髮</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">fà<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;(</span><span class="footnote">Taiwanese Mandarin pronunciation</span><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="phonetic">f</span></span><span class="phonetic"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">ǎ</span></span><span class="phonetic"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
 “hair”) both TC variants of SC </span></span><span class="phonetic"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black;background:white">发</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">,
 for example, do not have “the same pronunciations and the same meanings” in all of the languages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">In Japanese,
</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;MS Mincho&quot;;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">国</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"> and
</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;MS Mincho&quot;;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">國</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">cannot be exchanged in most cases. However, there may be certain names e.g.
</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;MS Mincho&quot;;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">紀伊國屋</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">/</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;MS Mincho&quot;;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">紀伊国屋</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">
 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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">
 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Chris.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel &#43;44 20
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<a href="mailto:chinesegp-bounces@icann.org">chinesegp-bounces@icann.org</a> [<a href="mailto:chinesegp-bounces@icann.org">mailto:chinesegp-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Wang Wei<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 22 October 2014 03:19<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ChineseGP@icann.org">ChineseGP@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ChineseGP] fortnightly meeting on 23rd Oct, Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It’s been couple of weeks since the last fortnightly meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tomorrow, I’d like to share my slides for CDN variant workshop in ICANN 51<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I will send the document to IP for their formal feedback after we discuss and reach a consensus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Meeting time: 3PM (Beijing time, UTC&#43;8)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Wang Wei<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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