Re: Unicode -- not a registry? [was: phonetic superscripts]

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Ar 15:59 -0700 1999-07-22, scríobh Juliusz Chroboczek:
>Michael Everson <everson@indigo.ie>:
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>ME> Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 are ***NOT*** registries.

Gosh I said that a long time ago now.

>Could you please explain what this sentence means, for people not
>familiar with standardisation procedures?

A registry is a catalogue into which people can put whatever they want, no
matter how technically horrible it is. A standard is an ordered document
which has received serious technical review by experts of various kinds.

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