Re: Synthetic scripts (was: Re: Private Use Agreements and Unappr oved Characters)

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Mar 16 2002 - 01:10:06 EST


David Starner <starner@okstate.edu> wrote:

>> IMHO, Unicode Consotium should make these people happy before
Tolkien
>> fans and Trekkies.
>
> Why? How does the happiness of Tolkein fans and Trekkies have anything
> do with the happiness of those Japanese? Encoding characters is
largely
> a parellel process; whether or not Everson works on a Tengwar proposal
> does not further nor retard more Han characters from entering Unicode,
> and forcing it to be serial is just petty and non-productive.

Maybe this should be a Unicode Myth for Mark Davis's collection,
something along the lines of "Encoding (or considering) script A means
script B has to wait longer before being encoded (or considered)."

Another, related one that is surfacing in this discussion is "The fact
that script A has been (or will be) encoded before script B implies that
the UTC (or WG2) thinks more highly of script A."

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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