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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