From: "David Starner" <starner@okstate.edu>
> Sure. That's been done, and now almost everything not rarely-used or
> fictional has been encoded.
Still stuff on the roadmap. :-)
After that, perhaps Unicode can takle a step back and start working on
supporting its members and helping them implement what is there? The fact
that there is no member companhy that fully implements all of Unicode has go
to be staicking in more craws that just mine.
> I feel there's a greater value to encoding a large body of poetry and
> writing in a script in current use, rather than 50 pages (the entire
> corpus of Gothic writing) that's always printed in Latin
> transliteration.
And which member companies plans to ship fonts, locale info, shaping
engines, etc. for these scripts?
So who precisely is the "value" to? Given the current economy, is it in the
best interests of the UTC to be spending a lot of committee time on either
one? Perhaps when times are better everyone can be more charitable....
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/
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