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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">I have drafted the following questions for Vietnamese language experts after our Tuesday meeting:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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">The Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) lists the following letters for Vietnamese:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black;background:#EEFFFF">a à ả ã á ạ ă ằ ẳ ẵ ắ ặ â ầ ẩ ẫ ấ ậ b c d đ e è ẻ ẽ é ẹ ê ề ể ễ ế ệ f g h i ì ỉ ĩ í ị j k l m n o ò ỏ õ ó ọ ô ồ ổ ỗ ố ộ ơ ờ ở ỡ ớ ợ p q r s t u
 ù ủ ũ ú ụ ư ừ ử ữ ứ ự v w x y ỳ ỷ ỹ ý ỵ z</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"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">(See
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/28/summary/vi.html">www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/28/summary/vi.html</a> .)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Are any other letters in use?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Some of the diacritics are used to indicate tone – is Vietnamese ever written with a simpler set of Latin letters without tone marks?
 (For example, Pinyin </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:JA">Běijīng is sometimes written as Beijing, without tone marks.)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Are some of the letters listed not in use?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">I would really welcome your improvements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">Chris.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,sans-serif">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" 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">www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon</a>
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