Re: Private Use Agreements and Unapproved Characters

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 12:35:36 EST


From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>

> The JTC1 Member Bodies, however, do not represent an industrial
> consortium. The goal of the Universal Character Set is to represent
> all the world's writing systems.

Yes, and perhaps the proposals can start there, then.

> If accepted into the standard, collation information will certainly
> go into the UCA and 14651 template.

The UCA does not handle collation for all of the currently supported
languages in various projects.

> Not that the "higher ups" are spending a lot of money on Old Italic
> or Ogham or Tagbanwa either, right?

Or Deseret.

> Often, whether a script is prioritized or not has to do with the
> amount of reliable information we have about it, as a practical
> matter.

Makes sense. But the perception issue is inescapeable.

MichKa

Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/



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