From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Jun 18 2009 - 14:14:57 CDT
On 6/18/2009 11:22 AM, André Szabolcs Szelp wrote:
> "There's also the issue that some foreign terms may not have a single
> settled form of usage for an extended period"
>
> That seems to be exactly the case in the debated issue.
>
> Actually, a representative survey among IT pros (i.e. the actual user
> community of the word; Unicode *is* a terminus technicus) could bring
> clarification for that,
... or it might not. There are definitely cases where multiple terms are
in use in a language and even if you back your choice with a poll, it
remains very much a choice.
If that's the case in this instance, someone needs to decide how to
settle the issue for *this* document.
A./
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Thu Jun 18 2009 - 14:17:20 CDT