Re: Private Use Agreements and Unapproved Characters

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 13:33:43 EST


From: "David Starner" <starner@okstate.edu>

> 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.

That is not my intend (thus explaining my prefixing of all this with the
"devil's advocate").

I am mentioning that each person there works for a company which has its
greatest interest in seeinf developed what they plan to sell. The fact that
the UTC itself is filled with linguists and other such specialists is a very
good thing for other scripts, but I suspect that many of them feel at times
like they are speeding and hoping the cop does not see them?

MichKa

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



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