From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 14:47:00 CST
At 22:16 +0200 2003-10-16, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>I'm not quoting exactly their sentences. This is just the general idea
>behind ISO which is to produce a coherent set of standards that should
>be accepted and followed by governments, industries and people
>developping interchangeable products or services.
*That* is a very different thing from what you said:
> >> ISO10646 objectives are to also to offer support and integrate
> >> almost all other related ISO specifications that may need a
> >> unified codepoint space for encoding either plain text or their
> >> own objects.
There is no truth whatsoever in your supposition that ISO/IEC 10646's
objectives have anything to do with "integrating" other
specifications. ISO/IEC 10646's objectives are to provide an
architecture and character set.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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