On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:44:13AM -0800, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> 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. :-)
What's left on the roadmap that isn't rarely used?
> After that, perhaps Unicode can takle a step back and start working on
> supporting its members and helping them implement what is there?
There is ICU, which handles most of the backend stuff. If you want to
get Apple or Microsoft to donate a renderer or fonts such that everyone
can use them, that would be greatly appreciated
> > 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?
Which member companies have shipped fonts, etc., for Cherokee? How about
Ogham and Runic?
> So who precisely is the "value" to?
In my eyes, part of the success of Unicode is that it has every
character one could need, and if it doesn't, then it will next version.
If you want to make Unicode into a purely commercial standard, then you
may lose some of the major Unicode enthusiasts who have and do sell
Unicode everywhere.
-- David Starner - starner@okstate.edu "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably refering to the Internet)
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