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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks Mats. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A follow up question, is there evidence that these two code points are used interchangeably in the languages the repertoire team analyzed? I ask because the IP will ask for more evidence of a variant relationship
besides visual appearance. Per the Procedure “Generation Panels should ignore cases where the relation is based exclusively on aspects of visual similarity”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-Dennis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="color:black">Mats Dufberg <mats.dufberg@iis.se><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 5:33 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Dennis Tan Tanaka <dtantanaka@verisign.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"latingp@icann.org" <latingp@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] Re: [Latingp] Homoglyphs within Latin script<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">Dennis,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">My conclusion is that both should be included since some languages use one and some languages the other.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">I think it would be reasonable to have a variant rule for those.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">Yours,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">Mats</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">Mats Dufberg</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">DNS Specialist, IIS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">Mobile: +46 73 065 3899</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="color:black">"Tan Tanaka, Dennis" <dtantanaka@verisign.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday 4 January 2018 at 21:45<br>
<b>To: </b>Mats Dufberg <mats.dufberg@iis.se>, "latingp@icann.org" <latingp@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Latingp] Homoglyphs within Latin script</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Mats,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Are you saying that the panel needs to do more analysis to determine which one to include in the repertoire or is the matter that both of them will be included but you are suggesting
some variant rules? On the latter, IP briefly discussed about the two code points in the feedback regarding the Principles document.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-Dennis</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="color:black">Latingp <latingp-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Mats Dufberg <mats.dufberg@iis.se><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 12:41 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"latingp@icann.org" <latingp@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] [Latingp] Homoglyphs within Latin script</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">There are many code points that are so similar that confusion is at risk, but there is at least one clear pair of homoglyphs:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">They are not homoglyphs in upper case. In two of the languages that attest either of the two, it is not possible to say which because there is no upper
case letter.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">Mats</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">Mats Dufberg</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">DNS Specialist, IIS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif">Mobile: +46 73 065 3899</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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