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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Please find below a draft of an email to African linguists. It is more difficult to draft than the Vietnamese one, as the status of some of the code points likely to
be used is less certain than it was for the Vietnamese code points and so to some extent I'm having to decide things that are not yet finalized (hence "Currently it looks as if ...").<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">I shall attach the latest version of the code point file once we have discussed version 4 and it has been worked on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Anyway, as usual, I would be grateful for your comments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">==<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (www.ICANN.org) is currently doing some work on the Unicode code points required to write Top Level domain names
in languages using the Latin script (Roman alphabet): <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/croscomlgrprocedure/Latin+GP">
https://community.icann.org/display/croscomlgrprocedure/Latin+GP</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Please find attached an early draft of Latin script code points. Currently it looks as if code points belonging to languages with EGIDS (see www.ethnologue.com) scores
of 1-4 (and perhaps some languages with scores of 5 and even below) have a chance of being included in the repertoire, unless the code points are for historical or religious use, or for punctuation, or belong to other scripts (e.g. Arabic numerals 0-9), etc.
We have indicated some code points we think are being used in African languages, also some that are used in the African Reference Alphabet, the Alphabet National du Tchad and the Pan-Nigerian Alphabet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Could you write enough of your language(s) using code points in document for you to be able to create generic Top Level Domain names in it (examples of gTLDs: .com,
.org, .net and .wiki)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">We are especially interested in code points in red, as some of those may not be in current use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">We would be very grateful for your help on a one-off or on-going basis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Yours,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Chris Dillon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Co-Chair, Latin Generation Panel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel +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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