From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Sun Jan 11 2009 - 07:01:00 CST
Quoting "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>:
> On 10 Jan 2009, at 21:40, vunzndi@vfemail.net wrote:
>> Quoting "Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com>:
>>
>>> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
>>> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of vunzndi@vfemail.net
>>>
>>>> I am certain it would be almost impossible to find a person who was
>>>> from a country not included in the 10 "flags/localisation symbols" who
>>>> would agree the 10 are sufficient.
>>>
>>> Well, I have not gone to see which countries are included in the
>>> ten and found that my country (Canada) is not included, nor are
>>> two other countries in which I have at some time resided (Thailand
>>> and Mexico). Nonetheless, I see no need to encode additional flags
>>> in the UCS.
>>>
>>> So, your certainly is clearly not well founded.
>>>
>>
>> Now I know of one exception.
>>
>> Accepted my words were not the most accurate they could be.
>
> John, I bet you CAD 10 that I can find a Canadian NOT employed by a
> major computer company who would not have the same view that Peter
> has.
>
I'm afraid I must decline, I never back a losing horse.
John
BTW my point was that if the 10 flags are encoded then most people
will wish to have there own flag encoded.
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
>
>
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