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<p>Please find below, comments from the Devanagari and Gujarati LGR point of view towards the Sinhala GP proposal which I am trying to post onto the url at
<a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/sinhala-lgr-2018-10-02-en" target="_blank">
Proposal for Sinhala Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules - ICANN</a>. Somehow, the "submit comments" facility is not responding properly. Here are the details on behalf of the NBGP, submitted as its Co-Chair:</p>
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<p class="yiv8471429686ydp9b8cc79byiv1552038658msonormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Devanagari - Sinhala</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="yiv8471429686ydp9b8cc79byiv1552038658msonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Devanagari Code Point</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="yiv8471429686ydp9b8cc79byiv1552038658msonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In Devanagari LGR Proposal</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="yiv8471429686ydp9b8cc79byiv1552038658msonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In Sinhala LGR proposal</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="yiv8471429686ydp9b8cc79byiv1552038658msonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Decision/Action</span></p>
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<span lang="HI" style="font-family:"Mangal",serif;color:black">ः (</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">U+0903)</span></p>
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<span lang="SI-LK" style="font-family:"Nirmala UI",sans-serif;color:black">ඃ</span><span style="font-family:"Unicode sans-serif",serif;color:black"> (</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">U+0D83)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Devanagari LGR, in the appendix, has listed substantial number of Cross-script variants which are consonants, vowels and vowel signs. Among all of those, Sinhala Visarga character also is included. As it is the dependent vowel sign
which in isolation cannot form any valid label, it is mentioned only for the sake of completeness as a confusable.<br>
Devanagari LGR team would like to place on record it's agreement with the Sinhala GP.
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<p class="yiv8471429686ydp9b8cc79byiv1552038658msonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In Gujarati LGR Proposal</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="yiv8471429686ydp9b8cc79byiv1552038658msonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In Sinhala LGR proposal</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="HI" style="font-family:"Mangal",serif;color:black">ः (</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">U+0A83)</span></p>
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<span lang="SI-LK" style="font-family:"Nirmala UI",sans-serif;color:black">ඃ</span><span style="font-family:"Unicode sans-serif",serif;color:black"> (</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">U+0D83)</span></p>
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<p class="yiv8471429686ydp9b8cc79byiv1552038658msonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This is not mentioned</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Gujarati LGR has not listed any cross-script variants as the team did not find any Consonants/Vowels which can be confused with the Consonants/Vowels of any other scripts. As the dependent signs cannot form any valid label, such signs
were not listed as the GJ LGR confusables. The discrepancy between cross-script confusable analysis between Gujarati (0A83) and Sinhala (0D83) Visarga character is seen because of that. As the pair is not found the normative Sinhala LGR, it is assumed that
it is listed only for the sake of reference and as a confusable. GJ LGR team would like to place on record that this being part of the confusables only, the discrepancy is a non-issue and hopes that the Sinhala GP is in consonance with the same.
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<p class="yiv8471429686ydp9b8cc79byiv1552038658msonormal">In addition, we may be able to submit the comments of the Kannada and the Telugu teams to strongly argue for inclusion of the normative variant pairs mentioned in their respective LGRs to be included
in the Sinhala normative variant pairs. As the Kannada and Telugu mentions those code points as normative variants and the Sinhala LGR does not, this is a breaking discrepancy and needs to be addressed.</p>
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