<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp7baef799yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div>Dear colleagues, </div><div><br></div><div>I would like to show why I think the various diacritics below (not just dot and macron) ought to be accounted variants as well. And I thought I'd do it as an email, because that's likely to be the way (along with links on web pages) that most people will get links. </div><div><br></div><div>By way of example, consider one of the original TLDs: .mil </div><div dir="" data-setdir="true"> <div><p class="ydp87662b8bMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </p><div><div style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black"><span style="color:#196AD4"><a href="http://www.xn--exampe-0cb.mil/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.teștexampļe1.mil</a></span></span></u></div><div style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:#4472C4">www.testexampḽe2.mil </span></u></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><a href="http://www.testexample3.miḽ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.testexample3.miḽ</a></div><div style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.example.xn--mi-gqa/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.tesțexample4.miļ</a></span></u></div></div><br><p></p></div></div><div><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Can you honestly say that you can tell which cases of .mil have diacritcs under the L? And if you think you can, did you notice which cases of "testexample" had them? And which diacritic? Because I sure can't.</span></span></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp7baef799signature">Bill Jouris<br>Inside Products<br>bill.jouris@insidethestack.com<br>831-659-8360<br>925-855-9512 (direct)<br></div></div></body></html>