RE: [BULK] - RE: interleaved ordering (was RE: Phoenician)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 14:45:17 CDT

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At 15:14 -0400 2004-05-14, Dean Snyder wrote:
> >We have heard how many times that you already deal with multiple
> >competing encodings - Unicode, web Hebrew, transliteration, etc. It is you
> >who are ignoring the fact that killing the Phoenician proposal will not
> >change that.
>
>But its approval will only exacerbate the situation. Why add to the mess?

Because the reality of writing systems is untidy, and the Universal
Character Set is intended to be Universal.

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