From: Deborah Goldsmith (goldsmit@apple.com)
Date: Tue May 16 2006 - 13:23:59 CDT
On May 16, 2006, at 6:57 AM, Asmus Freytag wrote:
>> It isn't even clear what the intended _use_ of the sets is, or
>> what the actual use will be. There is a large number of
>> imagineable uses, with their own implications on what the grounds
>> for defining the sets should really be. I'm afraid the (mostly
>> implicit) criteria applied now make the sets incommensurable
>> across languages.
>>
> That's been my feeling as well, but every time I mention this to
> people who are at the core of the CLDR activity they assure me that
> there are such criteria (including a clear specification of the
> intended use). If that's the case, can anyone give a URL to them?
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#%3Ccharacters%3E
Suggestions for improving the descriptions or tightening them are
welcome. You also might want to look at the current working draft:
http://www.unicode.org/draft/reports/tr35/tr35.html#%3Ccharacters%3E
Deborah
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