Re: Precomposed Tibetan

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 06:19:12 EST

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At 07:47 -0800 2002-12-13, Andrew C. West wrote:
>I have just noticed that the Chinese government have presented a proposal to
>encode 956 "BrdaRten" characters in the BMP. See
>http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2558.pdf
>
>Would I be correct in believing that there is no chance of these precomposed
>forms being accepted, even when pushed by a country with the clout of China ?

We pray not. It would introduce the kind of chaos we have for Korean
for Tibetan. I know a number of national bodies will vote vigorously
against damaging Tibetan in this way.

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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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