From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 04:48:56 EDT
On 28/04/2004 18:15, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>Dean,
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>>I'm really not
>>trying to open a can of worms here,
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>Yes you are.
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Except that it is already open, or was on the Hebrew list a few months ago.
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>The very nature of the problem requires reaching a consensus
>among users of the proposed text encoding regarding what
>text representation purpose it is intended for, and within
>that context, what the useful boundaries of encoding would
>be. That is an *operational* definitional problem, not an
>*axiomatic* one.
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The problem in this case seems to be that there were wide ranging
discussions on this issue on the Hebrew list, among experts and others,
and no consensus was reached. Rather, the proposer of the current
proposal, who is not actually a user of the script, insisted that his
view was the only possible one and was not prepared to accept any other
view. He has now gone ahead and made a proposal for which there is no
consensus. Personally, I think it is a reasonable proposal, but it
should not be accepted on the say-so of a single proposer apart from a
consensus.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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